Search Engineer – SDE-2

Job Title
: Search Engineer – SDE-2

Location
: Bengaluru, India

Department
: Engineering – Discovery & Search

Experience
: 4–6 years

Employment
Type
: 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 a
Search 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 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.