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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Match Team - **Company:** Enigma LLC - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $210,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Databases, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Database Optimization, Indexer, Backend, Build Management, Low Latency, Data Delivery, Api Design, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Service Stack, Microservices - **Published:** June 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e3d1206e0b613122 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 5+ years of software engineering experience * Has strong programming proficiency in Python and experience operating within cloud environments (AWS preferred) * Has experience designing, fine-tuning, and operating high-scale backend systems, APIs, or data delivery platforms * Demonstrated applied, production-level expertise in two or more of the following technical domains: distributed systems, information retrieval, or high-scale API development. * Enjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, other engineers, our client stakeholders) to set clear expectations and solve common problems * Effectively communicates technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences * Thrives in highly collaborative environments with strong ownership and fast iteration cycles * Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world, * Have deep experience with our core stack (Typesense, Python, AWS) or similar retrieval infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, FAISS) * Have built customer-facing search or recommendation systems or APIs * Have an outstanding track record of leading engineering teams * Have extensive experience engineering SaaS data products * Have mentored senior engineers and raised the technical bar across disciplines ## Description At the core of Enigma's product is our data, which makes delivery systems central to what we build. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Match Team, you will lead efforts that improve the latency and scalability of our customer-facing data products. You'll work across the full software lifecycle: translating product requirements into technical designs, and implementing high-throughput search and retrieval systems. This role is ideal for an engineer who is excited by hard search problems and the systems challenges of delivering low-latency, production-grade retrieval systems., * Build scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments * Design and build low-latency, high-throughput search APIs, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems using Python, Typesense, and AWS * Evaluate and evolve our search technology stack, driving technical design decisions across retrieval architecture, indexing strategies, and system performance tradeoffs * Solve problems with containers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS, and Terraform) * Lead end-to-end work from design and implementation through productionization and customer-facing delivery * Detect and investigate anomalies in system performance and data freshness, tracing issues to root cause * Pride themselves on writing highly readable, thoroughly tested code * Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to improve search experience and discoverability * Mentor teammates and help raise the bar for system design and operational excellence, * Impact: Your technical ability and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product in the market, driving critical decision making at multi-billion dollar companies. * Technical Challenge: Our systems integrate new technologies for database, information retrieval, distributed systems, microservices, elastic scaling, data pipelines, and more. This role focuses on the hardest challenges in large-scale retrieval systems, APIs, and distributed systems. * Ownership: You'll have meaningful autonomy to shape the production systems that power our core products, including having a strong voice in our tooling and vendor ecosystem. * Customer Proximity: Your work will directly influence how sophisticated customers integrate Enigma data into critical workflows and decision-making systems. ## Related Videos - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) - [Your next 10x engineer isn't in your city. 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