Senior Software Development Engineer
Pubblicato il 07-10-2026 - Lever in Italia
Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Data Search based in Italy. This is a senior engineering role focused on building and improving a large-scale creator search experience used by thousands of businesses worldwide. You'll work across the full search stack, from data and indexing pipelines to retrieval, embeddings, ranking, relevance, and low‐latency serving. The role combines distributed systems, multimodal data, vector search, and LLM‐powered technologies to solve complex search problems at significant scale. You'll work with hundreds of millions of profiles and billions of media files, turning messy, high‐volume data into useful intelligence. You'll have substantial autonomy and ownership, taking ambiguous product challenges from discovery through architecture, implementation, production, and measurement. You'll collaborate closely with data, product, engineering, customers, and leadership teams in a fast‐moving, async‐first environment.
Improve creator discovery across hundreds of millions of profiles and billions of media files by enhancing retrieval,
filtering, ranking, relevance, performance, and the overall search experience.
Design and build systems that generate and leverage multimodal embeddings from images, video, text, and audio at large scale.
Develop new search capabilities and take promising ideas from experimentation to reliable production systems, balancing search quality, latency, scalability, and cost.
Own technical problems end to end, including understanding customer needs, gathering requirements, defining solutions, designing architecture, writing code, launching features, measuring outcomes, and iterating based on evidence.
Diagnose and resolve relevance and performance issues across data, query logic, retrieval, ranking, models, and product decisions.
Evaluate new models and technologies pragmatically, understanding their tradeoffs and identifying where they can create meaningful improvements to the search experience.
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