Senior Search Engineer

Amo
Paris
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Collaboration","Experimentation","Problem-solving","Reasoning"]

Build and improve search across multiple entity types, with a focus on geospatial search. Own key components like indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking, and define metrics with feedback loops to measure search quality. Run offline evaluations and production experiments, tuning relevance using signals such as popularity, personalization, and context. Collaborate closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements, and explore semantic/embedding-based approaches when useful.

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Amo
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Senior Search Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and improve search across multiple entity types, with a focus on geospatial search. Own key components like indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking, and define metrics with feedback loops to measure search quality. Run offline evaluations and production experiments, tuning relevance using signals such as popularity, personalization, and context. Collaborate closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements, and explore semantic/embedding-based approaches when useful.
Location: Paris
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and improve search across multiple entity types.
  • •Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
  • •Design metrics and feedback loops to drive search quality.
  • •Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
  • •Tune search results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Senior-level experience building production search systems.
  • •Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
  • •Experience with geospatial search.
  • •Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.
  • •Strong backend engineering fundamentals and ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.
Skills:CollaborationExperimentationProblem-solvingReasoning
Tech Stack:SearchGeospatial searchIndexingQuery planningRetrievalRankingSemantic searchEmbeddingsRust

Company Brief

Amo
Amo is a Paris-based startup building social apps that focus on private friend networks and creative social interactions across multiple products (Tilt, Bump, ID), launched in 2023 to refocus social media around close connections.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 50M to 100M
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2023
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