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Senior search specialist

Sydney
beBeeEngineering
Posted: 1 August
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Search Technology Lead

We are looking for a highly skilled professional to lead our search technology efforts.

About the Role

This is an exceptional opportunity to guide our engineering teams in executing projects, identifying architectural improvements to our search infrastructure, and playing a key role in defining and communicating our search technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate with engineering teams to support them with their biggest search challenges.
2. Define and communicate our search technology strategy, working with technical leadership to define Dovetail's vision for search and insights extraction.
3. Identify, prioritize, and solve systemic technical challenges, improving our search architecture and advocating for this strategy across multiple teams.
4. Design and implement advanced search systems, architecting scalable indexing pipelines, query understanding systems, and relevance tuning mechanisms.
5. Advocate for and maintain engineering quality, setting a high bar for search excellence and preventing issues in search accuracy, latency, and relevance.

Requirements:

* Extensive experience building search systems, designing and implementing search infrastructure using technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, or vector databases.
* Excellent communication skills, able to convey complex search architectures and articulate query performance vs. relevance tradeoffs.
* Experience managing complex search infrastructure, designing and delivering complex search features, optimizing indexing pipelines, and providing reasonable performance estimates.
* Ability to teach others, mentoring junior team members to help them learn search best practices and information retrieval concepts.
* Pragmatic and flexible approach, comfortable with ambiguity in search requirements and able to adjust to shifting customer search needs.

Benefits:

* Passionate about building an environment where every team member feels supported and valued.
* Celebrate individualism and welcome diversity, encouraging applications from under-represented groups.

About Us:

We believe in creating a work environment that fosters growth, learning, and collaboration. If you're passionate about search technology and want to be part of a dynamic team, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

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