Remote Principal Engineer Search Job in NAMER Shopify

Who you are

• Demonstrated mastery of relevance engineering with a deep understanding of search and recommendation systems powered by Elasticsearch Solr Lucene and/or other vector databases
• Experience championing and delivering on complex technical projects involving a wide range of engineering teams and producing measurable impact
• Effective collaboration with staff-plus level technical leaders across multiple orgs and teams: building trust influencing direction and fostering collaboration
• Experience working with and influencing the open source community and/or cloud vendors
• Excitement to dive into the codebase and influence by prototyping and building
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Desirables

• Machine learning expertise
• Natural language processing
• Strategic thinking
• Mentorship experience

What the job involves

• Challenge orthodox approaches and drive innovation through big bets that can transform Shopify's search capabilities
• Elevate Shopify's software systems to new global maxima by leveraging the latest trends and best practices in search technology
• Help teams develop and implement search algorithms indexing strategies and relevance tuning through prototyping and coaching on best practices
• Help Shopify realize search performance scalability and reliability at the scale of millions of merchants
• Collaborate with data science and analytics teams to leverage machine learning and natural language processing techniques
• Work with other technical leaders to set and drive technical aim towards a performant and extensible Shopify
• Deliver a great developer experience so the rest of Shopify can leverage what we’ve built
• Contribute to the engineering discipline of Shopify through community efforts craft quality or efforts to raise the bar continuing to have Shopify be an industry leader in engineering
• Drive new platform investment through research development experimentation and strategic thinking
• Mentor and coach craft leaders and take part in shaping culture to build a healthy and impactful team