Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Search is a core product surface for many SaaS companies, and this role sits in the part of the stack where relevance, latency, and reliability directly shape customer experience. Working on a cloud-based architecture that blends keyword and vector search reflects a broader shift in SaaS toward AI-assisted discovery and retrieval. The focus on indexing and querying customer data also signals a platform-oriented remit rather than a single feature team.
For a SaaS engineering career, the strongest signal here is sustained exposure to production distributed systems under real traffic and dataset constraints. Owning both build-time indexing pipelines and query-time services develops a practical understanding of trade-offs across performance, cost, and correctness. The operational responsibility, including on-call, builds the kind of end-to-end accountability that translates well across SaaS environments where uptime and data integrity are non-negotiable.
This role suits a senior engineer who prefers system-level problems, clear quality standards, and collaborative troubleshooting across teams. It will fit someone comfortable contributing design leadership while still engaging deeply in implementation and operations, especially in a remote-first working model.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the search team. We are responsible the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Our work consists of distributed components which orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and then querying that data to return search results. The role requires understanding and solving the challenges that come with complex distributed systems.
The team is composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.
YOU WILL:
- Be a key contributor to the design and development of Search and Indexing
- Be responsible for operations for Search including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota
- Work with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid or office based (Paris) yourself
- Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system
- Share your expertise on distributed systems
- Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
- Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Excellent spoken and written English skills
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience in Go
- Experience in Kubernetes
- Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering
