Search Engineer – SDE-2

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About Licious

At Licious, we are building India’s most trusted brand for fresh meat and seafood, powered by technology, innovation, and obsession for quality. As part of our Discovery & Search team, you’ll work on delivering relevant, personalized, and lightning-fast search experiences for millions of customers daily.

Role Overview

Search Engineer (SDE-2)

You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Data, and Platform teams to deliver search experiences that make discovery seamless, personalized, and delightful for users.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement

  high-performance search and discovery systems using Java, Spring Boot, and OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch)

  .
• Develop and optimize

  indexing pipelines

  , ensuring freshness, accuracy, and minimal latency.
• Implement

  relevance tuning

  , ranking models, and spell correction strategies (e.g., “did-you-mean”, auto-suggestions).
• Work with

  catalog, pricing, and availability services

  to enhance query responses with contextual metadata.
• Analyze search metrics such as

  CTR, no-result rates, latency, and recall

  to continuously improve relevance.
• Design and maintain APIs powering

  Search, Product Listing Pages (PLP), Product Detail Pages (PDP)

  , and other discovery modules.
• Collaborate with data and ML teams to integrate

  personalization and cohort-based ranking

  into the search pipeline.
• Write clean, scalable, and testable code with solid understanding of

  system design and distributed systems

  .
• Participate in

  code reviews, production readiness reviews

  , and continuous performance tuning.
• Contribute to

  A/B testing

  of search features and monitor impact through telemetry and analytics.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in

  backend engineering

  , with at least 3 years working on

  search or large-scale data systems

  .
• Strong proficiency in

  Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful microservice design

  .
• Hands-on experience with

  OpenSearch or Elasticsearch

  – indexing, querying, analyzers, scoring, relevance tuning.
• Experience with

  query understanding

  , or

  semantic search (vector search, embeddings)

  .
• Should be strong in

  complex problem solving, Data Structure & Algorithms

  .
• Strong knowledge of

  data modeling, caching, and API optimization

  for high QPS systems.
• Familiarity with

  observability tools

  (Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana) and performance monitoring.
• Understanding of

  distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and search schema design

  .

Good to Have

• Experience with recommendation systems

• Exposure to

  Kafka, Redis, or Cassandra

  for data pipelines.
• Have knowledge on

  AWS

  deployments.
• Familiarity with

  A/B testing

  frameworks and data-driven experimentation.
• Understanding of

  consumer behavior analytics and search ranking models.

• Prior experience in

  e-commerce, discovery, or food-tech

  systems.
• Comfortable writing

  Unit tests

  .

Why Licious

• Work on

  cutting-edge search and discovery challenges

  at consumer scale.
• Ownership-driven culture with opportunities to influence

  search roadmap and architecture.

• Collaborate with talented engineers across

  catalog, personalization, and data science teams.

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and a growth-oriented

  environment.