Principal/Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Search

About HighspotHighspot helps sales teams improve customer conversations and achieve their revenue goals. From content optimization and performance analytics to in-context training, guided selling, and more, the Highspot platform delivers enterprise-ready features in a modern design that sales reps and marketers love. Using Highspot, marketing leaders have deep insights and analytics into the performance and influenced revenue of content, campaigns, and marketing assets.  What makes the solution special? It’s loved by sales reps globally, and is the #1 rated sales enablement platform on G2 Crowd. 
We are committed to diversity as both a moral and business imperative. 
We’re very proud of our customer loyalty and our rapid growth. Concurrent with this growth is the need to scale our platform, expand the surface area of integrations, deliver high-quality and timely features, and generally contend with an increasingly complex technical ecosystem. 
As a Sr. Backend Search Engineer, you will work closely with the consumers of the platform to improve search relevancy, ranking and recommendations. You will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders to understand search-related problems and requirements to architect and develop efficient and scalable solutions. You will review, analyze, maintain, and optimize existing search implementations. We're looking for highly motivated individuals who work well in a team-oriented, iterative, and fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do

• Develop highly-availability distributed services
• Develop clean, reusable, supportable, and well-tested RESTful APIs and web services, including Highspot’s external API
• Help design and develop new product features and functionality
• Partner cross-functionally with UX and Product Management to create software that customers love
• Write maintainable and testable code
• Contribute to internal and external technical documentation

Your Background

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience, not including internships/co-ops
• Solid experience with search and related technologies such as Solr, Lucene and ZooKeeper.
• Strong understanding of enterprise search and search architecture.
• Demonstrable experience with schema design, relevancy tuning, boosting and optimization.
• Experience with REST API Design & Development
• Experience working with cloud services, preferably AWS.
• Knowledge of container technologies like docker.

Base salary range: $167,826 - $252,174. Employees may also be eligible for bonuses, stock options, and other forms of compensation.
The above represents total expected compensation for this role. Actual compensation will depend on various job-related factors, including, but not limited to, location, experience, and job qualifications.
Highspot also offers the following employee benefits for this position:-Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits-Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution-401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match-Unlimited PTO-8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week-Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)-18 weeks paid parental leave-Professional development opportunities through BetterUp and LinkedIn Learning-Discounted ClassPass membership-Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health-2 volunteer days per year-Commuting benefits  
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Equal Opportunity StatementWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disability status, political affiliation, veteran status, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
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