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Requirements • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience , • Deep experience designing, building, and tuning search engines (Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, Vespa, or equivalent); experience leading a major search re-architecture or building from scratch is strongly preferred; Vespa experience is a significant plus , • Strong proficiency in Go, or a willingness to adopt it as a primary language , • Experience with real-time data pipelines (Kafka, event streaming) for search indexing , • Strong instincts for relevance and ranking, with the ability to translate product goals into ranking signals and evaluate them with data , • Excellent written and verbal communication around collaborative system design and technical decision-making , • A pragmatic, collaborative mindset with strong ownership and systems thinking , • Experience with workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, or equivalent) is a plus , • Familiarity with geospatial systems and spatial filtering is a plus What the job involves • As a Staff Software Engineer on the Search team, you will be the senior technical owner of the Search Platform: the Search Engine, the Indexing Pipeline that feeds it, and Availability, which determines which restaurants can fulfill an order , • You will set technical direction, lead the design and implementation of the indexing pipeline and query-serving stack, and shape ranking and relevance strategy , • This is a hands-on technical leadership role , • You will build parts of the platform, guide the team's execution, and partner with Platform Engineering and downstream consumers at the integration boundaries , • Search is the front door of the marketplace , • Every customer interaction (browse, search, filter) passes through the systems this role owns, and every order depends on Availability correctly identifying which restaurants can deliver , • The quality of the search architecture, the freshness of the index, and the accuracy of delivery eligibility directly drive order volume, customer satisfaction, and the platform’s long-term competitive position.This is a rare opportunity to lead a search platform build at a company with significant scale and a rich problem domain , • Own the Search Engine architecture: technology direction (Vespa-based), document schema, query serving, and operational model , • Own and build the Indexing Pipeline: Temporal-orchestrated workflows that ingest, validate, transform, and write data into the search engine and availability store , • Own Availability: zone-based delivery filtering, schedule matching, and the data model that powers it- extracted from the legacy monolith and re-implemented , • Own the Two-Stage Filtering Architecture: zone-based availability filtering followed by Vespa filtering and ranking , • Drive search relevance and ranking strategy across ordering contexts and customer types, in collaboration with product and data , • Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for how search and availability are consumed across all channels , • Manage migration sequencing and risk across the phased rollout (Typeahead, Availability, Core Search) , • Build a measurement and experimentation foundation supporting full-funnel evaluation, from CTR through order fulfillment , • Lead through collaborative design: white-boarding, technical discussions, and aligning teams around clear architectural decisions , • Partner with Platform Engineering on shared service patterns, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD , • Partner with product, data, and downstream consumers on relevance, ranking signals, and API contracts , • Act as a technical multiplier through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship