Senior Search Engineer

About the role

amo is looking for a Senior Search Engineer in Paris to build and improve search across multiple entity types. The role covers geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval and ranking, and works closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.

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 for search quality.
• Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
• Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization and contextual signals.
• Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.
• Work with backend and product teams to deliver search improvements.

Required profile

• Senior-level experience building production search systems.
• Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval and ranking.
• Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation and feedback loops.
• Experience evaluating, tuning, extending or building search and indexing systems beyond basic API usage.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness and scale.

Nice to have

• Experience with local search, maps, discovery or multi-entity search systems.
• Experience with semantic search, embeddings, ranking, recommendations or personalization.
• Experience with Rust search or indexing systems or similar low-level indexing primitives.
• Experience building search systems over multiple heterogeneous entity types.

What we offer

• Onsite work 5 days a week in a central Paris office near Opera.
• Health care fully covered.
• Maternity, paternity and second-parent leave with salary maintained at 100%.
• 8-9 weeks of vacation per year, including 5 weeks of paid time off and about 11 bank holidays.
• Two shutdowns per year (two weeks in summer, one in winter).