Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the core of a SaaS search platform, where relevance, latency, and reliability directly shape customer-facing product quality. Working on a cloud-based architecture that blends keyword and vector search places the position in a segment of SaaS increasingly defined by AI-assisted retrieval and large-scale data indexing. The emphasis on distributed components, indexing pipelines, and query orchestration signals work that is closer to platform engineering than feature delivery.
For a long-term SaaS engineering path, this kind of ownership builds durable experience in operating production systems that serve multiple customers and workloads. The remit spans design through operations, including incident response and cross-team troubleshooting, which mirrors how mature SaaS organisations run shared infrastructure. Exposure to quality standards, automated testing, and large dataset constraints translates well to other platform, data, and reliability roles across SaaS.
The role is best suited to engineers who enjoy systems thinking, are comfortable being accountable for run-time outcomes, and value collaboration across boundaries rather than working in isolation. It will particularly fit someone who wants to deepen expertise in distributed systems and search infrastructure while contributing within 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 Metis team. We are responsible for Metis, the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Metis 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 the Metis system
- Be responsible for operations for the Metis system 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
