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Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

commercetools · München, Bayern, Germany (Hybrid)

Posted 1 day ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
1 day
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 work on the Discovery Team to enhance the retrieval layer for product discovery in e-commerce. Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing search functionalities, developing search capabilities using ElasticSearch and MongoDB, and maintaining scalable search infrastructure on Kubernetes. You will also engage in testing software components and participate in an on-call rotation 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, with production experience on the JVM
  • Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
  • Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures, including sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover
  • Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns
  • Fluent English for work in international teams
  • Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS where one tenant’s load must never affect another’s

Nice to have

  • Hands-on search experience, preferably ElasticSearch or OpenSearch
  • Practical exposure to vector retrieval, such as embeddings and approximate nearest neighbor indexes
  • Comfort reasoning about relevance with data, including precision and recall tradeoffs
  • 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

  • Role involves learning Scala and functional programming, which may require a learning curve if coming from another JVM language
  • On-call rotation with a worldwide distributed team may impact work-life balance

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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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