Job Description

Workato is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and optimization of intelligent search systems leveraging machine learning. The role involves building end-to-end retrieval pipelines, deploying learning-to-rank models, and architecting next-gen search infrastructure to support dynamic document corpora and real-time indexing.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a scalable search cluster
• Deploy learning-to-rank models
• Build and scale Entity Recognition pipelines
• Architect next-gen search infrastructure
• Drive improvements in query construction, indexing, and search performance
• Stay updated with search and indexing technologies
• Collaborate with product and research teams
• Produce clean, scalable code

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science
• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with 3+ years in search
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with Opensearch or Elasticsearch
• Understanding of information retrieval concepts
• Experience with text processing and NLP
• Experience with relevance evaluation metrics
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication abilities
• Collaborative mindset
• Detail-oriented
• Self-motivated

Benefits

• No benefits