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Senior Search Backend Engineer

commercetools · Valencia, Spain (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 be responsible for developing a modern search experience for customers, focusing on a search API for product discovery. Your work will involve designing and implementing search functionalities in a Scala backend, developing libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB, and maintaining scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform. You will also participate in on-call rotations to support 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 allowing you to share in the company's success.

Worth weighing

  • Hybrid role requiring three days a week in the office in specific locations (Munich, Berlin, London, or Valencia)
  • On-call rotation with a worldwide distributed team for production systems.

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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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