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Senior Search Backend Engineer

commercetools · London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Posted 7 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
7 days
commercetools's roles stay open a median of 33 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of commercetools's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at commercetools
high
12 stale, 5 reposted of 34 open
Hiring momentum
45 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Senior Search Backend Engineer at commercetools, you will develop a modern search experience for customers, focusing on search API functionalities within a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend. Your role includes working with technologies like ElasticSearch and MongoDB, maintaining scalable search infrastructure on Kubernetes, and collaborating with Product Management and DevOps. You will also participate in on-call rotations for production systems.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
5/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer working with languages on the JVM
  • Search-related experience (preferably ElasticSearch)
  • Strong DevOps mindset for driving infrastructure improvements
  • Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns
  • Practical work experience in developing server-side systems using the JVM
  • Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O

Nice to have

  • Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures (incl., queues, notification topics, sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover)
  • Experience working with Scala or other functional programming languages
  • Experience with infrastructure work and other technologies like Helm, Kubernetes, and Rust

What you get

  • Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support
  • Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and leadership programs
  • Family Leave Plus gives you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave
  • Equity participation program allows you to share in the company's success

Worth weighing

  • The role requires learning Scala and functional programming, which may be a consideration if you are not already familiar with these technologies.
  • The position involves on-call rotations, which could affect work-life balance depending on the frequency and demands of these rotations.

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Listed by commercetools on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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