Senior Software Engineer Search Platform

Who are we? Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service. Housecall Pro's brand portfolio includes Business Coaching by Housecall Pro, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.We support more than 40,000 businesses and have over 1,800 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving teammates across the globe (half of the engineering team is in Poland ). If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we'd love to hear from you. Housecall Pro celebrates diversity, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. About the role We're creating a new Search Platform Squad within our Core Platform organization to build a first-class Search Architecture that supports dynamic product growth. Search Platform defines the standards and owns the search framework to help our engineering squads build high-quality, performant search experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Search Platform Squad, you'll work on the foundations that make our search fast, relevant, observable and reliable at scale. You'll design and build services, pipelines, and tooling that support the full search lifecycle – from data ingestion and indexing through query execution, relevance tuning, and experimentation. Compensation: 6,500 - 8,000 USD per month (B2B) We also offer: Paid time off Flexible work hours 100% remote work Equity shares in a rapidly growing company backed by top-tier VCs A culture built on innovation that values big ideas We work in Central European Time Newest MacBook Setup Fee ($500) What you'll do Build a product that improves users' lives (75k unique daily users, 4.6 at App Store) Learn more about the HCP product Design and build platform services and tooling for search across Housecall Pro Define and roll out conventions for document modeling, index design, query patterns, and ranking so teams build on a consistent foundation Own and evolve our search infrastructure , focusing on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency Partner with product squads to design search-backed features, review their implementations, and act as a consulting partner on search topics Implement and improve search observability, query optimization, caching, and fallbacks Take part in system design and architecture discussions on performance, scalability, and reliability of distributed search systems Mentor engineers in search concepts, distributed systems, and platform thinking, and evangelize search best practices across the org What you bring 5 years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on large-scale, distributed systems Experience with at least one modern server-side stack (e.g., Ruby/Rails, Python, Java, Kotlin, Node, etc.) Proven experience with Elasticsearch and/or OpenSearch is highly preferred, including designing and operating clusters in production Solid understanding of vector databases, search infrastructure, indexing strategies, and query optimization is a huge plus Hands-on experience with production observability and reliability Practical knowledge of caching and performance tuning for networked services and search-heavy workloads Strong communication skills and comfort working in a remote-first, asynchronous environment Nice to have: experience with Ruby / Rails, event-driven architectures, MySQL at scale, or previous work on an internal platform or infrastructure team How we work You'll join a small and senior squad focused on cross-cutting search concerns, working closely with Product Platform teams, IAM, DevOps, and SRE. We value clear ownership, pragmatic engineering, and iterating in small, safe steps. You'll have room to shape our long-term search strategy while shipping meaningful improvements. Our primary technology stack at HCP is Ruby. To be effective in this role, you'll need to learn it. We offer support in the learning process, tailored to your needs and any prior experience with Ruby. This may include mentoring from our experienced engineering team or access to a paid online course that you can complete during working hours as part of your onboarding. The exact form of support will be agreed upon based on insights from your selection process. Sounds interesting? We're waiting for your resume This role is open to candidates in Poland . The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.