Senior Backend Engineer (Search)

Join ClickUp, a leading productivity platform, as a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in search. In this role, you will optimize and enhance our search functionality, which is critical to our platform and AI efforts. You will design, optimize, and scale our search infrastructure, working with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch technologies. Your expertise will directly contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available.

• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base, improving search relevance, accuracy, and speed.
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features, and troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale.
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences, and create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality.
• Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems
• 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
• Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams
• At ClickUp, we assess every candidate based on the potential impact they can have. We hire the best people for the job and support each person’s journey to build their boldest career
• Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply!
• 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