Search Engineer

About the role

We are hiring a Search Engineer to support and develop our UK search platforms. You will work across Apache Solr and Amazon OpenSearch (including Serverless), covering production support, search development, and a live Solr to OpenSearch migration.

What you'll do

• Develop and improve search: schemas, analyzers, indexing, queries, relevance, and search APIs
• Contribute to the Solr to OpenSearch migration, including schema and query translation and relevancy and performance checks
• Write and maintain Bash and operational automation for deploy, day-2 support, and incident response
• Use AI and prompt engineering as part of daily engineering work - investigation, scripting, and delivery
• Partner with product and platform teams on indexing pipelines, APIs, and AWS infrastructure

What you need

• 5–7 yrs of experience
• SQL
• AWS
• Java
• Python
• Elasticsearch
• Splunk
• Any graduate

Good to have

• C++
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Performance testing
• IAM
• Ansible