Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)

About this role

*Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.*

*Following the acquisition of Tooploox, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true end-to-end delivery—from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively.*

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering food search and logging for one of the world’s leading health and nutrition platforms. You’ll contribute directly to the systems that drive search — backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation — with a focus on improving core metrics: conversion rates, time to log, query abandonment, and result relevance.

## What you’ll do

• Contribute to, build, and maintain backend services that drive the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization.
• Perform search performance tuning end-to-end — data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement within Elasticsearch.
• Assist in the evaluation and implementation of search and data technologies that improve result quality and user experience.
• Collaborate closely with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery, experiment planning, and delivery.
• Contribute to the development of tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality.

## Required skills & experience

*Elasticsearch*

• Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, ...