About The Role

Join ClickUp, a leading productivity platform, as a Staff Backend Engineer (Search). In this role, you will be responsible for optimizing and enhancing 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.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices, ensuring the team adheres to high standards of quality and performance.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams
Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
Experience with TypeScript in backend systems
Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations
Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance
Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load
Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics
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!
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

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