Staff Backend Engineer, Search

Role Description

ClickUp is seeking a talented Staff Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities. As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for optimizing and enhancing our search functionality, which is a critical feature of our platform and underpins our AI efforts.

Your impact at ClickUp:

• Design, optimize, and scale our search infrastructure.
• Work with OpenSearch / ElasticSearch technologies to ensure users can instantly find exactly what they need across their workspace.
• Contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base.
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds.
• Enhance real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date.
• Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality.
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences.
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features.
• Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role.
• Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch.
• Experience measuring and optimizing search quality.
• Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems.
• Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations.
• Experience with TypeScript in backend systems.
• Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load.
• Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance.
• Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics.

Join Our Mission

At ClickUp, we're committed to building the future of productivity software. As our Search Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the core functionality of our platform and driving our AI initiatives forward. Join us in our mission to make the world more productive!