Search Engineer – SDE-2

Job Title : Search Engineer – SDE-2 Location : Bengaluru, India Department : Engineering – Discovery & Search Experience : 4–6 years EmploymentType : Full-time 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 We’re looking for aSearch Engineer (SDE-2)who is passionate about building scalable, intelligent, and data-driven search systems. You’ll be responsible for improving product discovery across Licious platforms by optimizing search relevance, performance, and quality using modern backend and search technologies. 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 implementhigh-performance search and discovery systems using Java, Spring Boot, and OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) . Develop and optimizeindexing pipelines , ensuring freshness, accuracy, and minimal latency. Implementrelevance tuning , ranking models, and spell correction strategies (e.g., “did-you-mean”, auto-suggestions). Work withcatalog, pricing, and availability servicesto enhance query responses with contextual metadata. Analyze search metrics such asCTR, no-result rates, latency, and recallto continuously improve relevance. Design and maintain APIs poweringSearch, Product Listing Pages (PLP), Product Detail Pages (PDP) , and other discovery modules. Collaborate with data and ML teams to integratepersonalization and cohort-based rankinginto the search pipeline. Write clean, scalable, and testable code with solid understanding ofsystem design and distributed systems . Participate incode reviews, production readiness reviews , and continuous performance tuning. Contribute toA/B testingof search features and monitor impact through telemetry and analytics.Required Skills & Qualifications 4–6 years of experience inbackend engineering , with at least 3 years working onsearch or large-scale data systems . Strong proficiency inJava, Spring Boot, and RESTful microservice design . Hands-on experience withOpenSearch or Elasticsearch– indexing, querying, analyzers, scoring, relevance tuning. Experience withquery understanding , orsemantic search (vector search, embeddings) . Should be strong incomplex problem solving, Data Structure & Algorithms . Strong knowledge ofdata modeling, caching, and API optimizationfor high QPS systems. Familiarity withobservability tools(Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana) and performance monitoring. Understanding ofdistributed systems, asynchronous processing, and search schema design . Good to Have Experience with recommendation systems Exposure toKafka, Redis, or Cassandrafor data pipelines. Have knowledge onAWSdeployments. Familiarity withA/B testingframeworks and data-driven experimentation. Understanding ofconsumer behavior analytics and search ranking models. Prior experience ine-commerce, discovery, or food-techsystems. Comfortable writingUnit tests . Why Licious Work oncutting-edge search and discovery challengesat consumer scale. Ownership-driven culture with opportunities to influencesearch roadmap and architecture. Collaborate with talented engineers acrosscatalog, personalization, and data science teams. Competitive compensation, benefits, and a growth-orientedenvironment.