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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Workato
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Text Processing, Elasticsearch, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Systems Architecture, Information Technology, Search Engines
- **Published:** June 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/558a4c8c-b23e-4f79-8bc0-de1508d44d38

## About the Role

* Bachelors/Masters/PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science, or another quantitative field.
 * 7+ years of backend engineering experience with 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields
 * Strong proficiency in Python
 * Hands-on experience with search engines (Opensearch or Elasticsearch)
 * Strong understanding of information retrieval concepts spanning traditional methods (TF-IDF, BM25) and modern neural search techniques (vector embeddings, transformer models)
 * Experience with text processing, NLP, and relevance tuning
 * Experience with relevance evaluation metrics (NDCG, MRR, MAP)
 * Experience with large-scale distributed systems
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

 * Strong communication abilities to explain technical concepts
 * Collaborative mindset for cross-functional team work
 * Detail-oriented with strong focus on quality
 * Self-motivated and able to work independently
 * Passion for solving complex search problems

## Description

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer (Search / Retrieval) to join our growing team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of intelligent search systems that leverage machine learning at their core. You'll be responsible for building end-to-end retrieval pipelines that incorporate advanced techniques in query understanding, ranking, and entity recognition. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in information retrieval and search relevance with hands-on experience applying machine learning to real-world search problems at scale. You will also be responsible to:

 * Lead the development of advanced our search cluster that can scale to millions of documents across customers and data sources
 * Deploy learning-to-rank models that optimize relevance using behavioral signals, embeddings, and structured feedback.
 * Build and scale robust Entity Recognition pipelines that enhance document understanding, enable contextual disambiguation, and support entity-aware retrieval.
 * Architect next-gen search infrastructure capable of supporting highly dynamic document corpora and real-time indexing.
 * Drive improvements in query construction, indexing and search performance
 * Be up-to-date with the latest improvements in search and indexing technologies
 * Collaborate with product and applied research teams to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations
 * Produce clean, scalable code and influence system architecture and roadmap across the relevance and platform stack.


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