Senior Software Engineer, Search Relevance (Remote) - Remote Tech Jobs

The Senior Software Engineer, Search Relevance will work on improving the Newsela search engine to delight our teacher and students, who use search as a primary way of finding content for their educational needs. You will contribute to team efforts around relevance and bring your own ideas and experiments to the search relevance team. Additionally, you will come up with your ideas and experiments to test.You will also make changes to Search infrastructure including the ability to monitor Elasticsearch and Agatha performance. You will ideate and bring up mechanisms to reduce latency by 50 ms and/or cut the costs of spinning a search experiment by 30%. You will partner closely with data scientists, product managers, other engineers on our frontend and backend teams to bring cutting edge techniques to improve search, which is used by more than 70% of our user base to discover engaging content.