Sr Backend Engineer
Quizlet · Remote
The role
Quizlet is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Search team to own the end-to-end search infrastructure, from data pipelines and Elasticsearch index design to retrieval services. The role involves building hybrid retrieval systems combining lexical and vector search, integrating embeddings, and supporting ranking improvements. The position requires being in the office at least two days a week (Wednesday and Thursday).
- Location
- Remote
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
What we know that the posting doesn’t say
- Seen 2 days agostill listed on the employer’s careers page
- Posted 54 days agothe first time we saw it
Key skills
- backend engineering
- data engineering
- pipeline design
- orchestration
- data modeling
- service/api development
- elasticsearch
- index design
- mappings
- analyzers
- sharding strategy
- lifecycle management
- bm25
- vector search
- knn
- hnsw
- embeddings
- machine learning
- ranking
- relevance
- api design
- request routing
- caching
- query fan-out
ABOUT QUIZLET: At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. We’re a $1B+ learning platform used by two-thirds of U.S. high school students and half of college students, powering over 1 billion learning interactions each week.…
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