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.

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