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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 0 days commercetools's roles stay open a median of 34 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of commercetools's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at commercetools
- moderate 15 stale, 8 reposted of 43 open
- Hiring momentum
- 50 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-24
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About this role
As a Senior AI Search Engineer on the Discovery Team at commercetools, you will design and implement search functionalities for a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend, focusing on enhancing product discovery for major commerce brands. Your role involves analyzing user needs, developing scalable architectures, and testing software components for usability and performance, while also participating in on-call rotations for production systems.
- 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
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in search
- Experience with building search solutions on top of engines such as Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, or similar
- Fluent English communication skills to work in international teams
- AI Aptitude: genuine curiosity for using AI tools to work smarter and more effectively
Nice to have
- Experience using modern search stacks and strategies to optimize search relevance
- Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures
- 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
- Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget
- Family Leave Plus with additional fully paid weeks of parental leave
- Equity participation program
Worth weighing
- Role involves on-call rotations which may require availability outside of regular hours
- Hybrid work model requires three days a week in the office
- Focus on AI and modern search technologies may require continuous learning and adaptation
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Listed by commercetools on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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