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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
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from commercetools's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for commercetools.
About this role
As a Senior Search Backend Engineer at commercetools, you will develop a modern search experience for customers, focusing on a search API for product discovery. Your responsibilities include designing and implementing search functionalities in a Scala backend, developing libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB, and maintaining scalable search infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform. You will also participate in on-call rotations for production systems and collaborate closely with Product Management and DevOps.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of commercetools as an employer.
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 allowing you to share in the company's success
Worth weighing
- Hybrid role with three days a week in the office, which may not suit all candidates
- On-call rotation with a worldwide distributed team may require flexible hours
- Focus on Scala and functional programming may require a learning curve for those unfamiliar with these technologies
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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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