Staff Software Engineer, Search

1. About Our Client:

This organization operates in the healthcare marketplace industry, addressing the significant challenges patients face when accessing care, such as outdated insurance directories, long wait times, and surprise billing. It provides a platform that enables patients to find and book both in-person and virtual healthcare services across all 50 states, covering over 200 specialties and 12,000 insurance plans. By empowering patients with choice and transparency, the company aims to transform healthcare into a more competitive and consumer-friendly market, improving quality and reducing costs.

2. About the Opportunity:

The Staff Software Engineer, Search will lead the development of critical backend services and data infrastructure powering the organization’s advanced search platform. This role focuses on transforming the search experience into an intelligent, intent-driven system using modern technologies such as embeddings, large language models, and sophisticated ranking methods. The position plays a key role in shaping the search strategy and engineering standards, ensuring scalable, high-performance, and patient-centered search capabilities.

3. Responsibilities:

• Architect and build core backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for the next-generation search platform.

• Redesign data ingestion and indexing workflows for provider, availability, and content information.

• Optimize low-latency query processing across tier-1 search, vector search, and ranking systems.

• Integrate ML model serving, embedding generation, and ranking signals into production backend services.

• Guide architectural direction and engineering standards through documentation, technical reviews, and mentorship.

• Mentor engineers on best practices in backend development, distributed systems, and API design.

• Implement observability measures to monitor and improve performance, reliability, and data freshness.

4. Requirements:

• Proven experience owning and scaling complex, high-traffic backend platforms with distributed systems expertise.

• Proficiency in C# / .NET or similar backend frameworks, emphasizing performance and concurrency.

• Experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines and stream-processing workflows.

• Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native infrastructure patterns including ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, Kinesis, OpenSearch, and S3.

• Familiarity with search technologies, vector databases, embedding models, and ML model serving at production scale.

• Excellent communication skills to align cross-functional teams.

• Commitment to mentoring and raising technical standards.

• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems in latency-sensitive environments.

5. Pay Range and Compensation Package:

• The pay range and compensation package for this role will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and other relevant factors.

6. Benefits & Perks:

• Flexible, hybrid work environment in a convenient location.

• Unlimited vacation.

• Fully paid employee health benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Commuter benefits.

• 401(k) plan with employer match.

• Corporate wellness programs.

• Sabbatical leave for employees with over five years of service.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.

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