Senior Software Engineer - Search

at  Luxury Escapes

BE PART OF THE TEAM TRANSFORMING GLOBAL TRAVEL EXPERIENCES!

Luxury Escapes is one of the world’s fastest-growing travel websites, with over 6 million members. We are growing rapidly & seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Search team.

At Luxury Escapes, we’ve been focused on expanding in 3 big ways:

• Increasing the number of product verticals (hotels, cruises, tours, experiences, etc)
• Increasing the range of products within each vertical (our customers want choice)
• Expanding internationally (geographies make for interesting problems!)

RELEVANT SKILLS:

• JavaScript / Node.js / Typescript.
• React (our frontend uses react and redux).
• SQL (we use PostgreSQL).
• RESTful API design.
• Automated testing and continuous integration.
• Experience using Elasticsearch or AWS OpenSearch to build and maintain search systems.
• Experience with search algorithm design.
• Experience with microservices.

As we’ve grown, having a fantastic on-site search has become increasingly important. Our search team’s goal is to let customers find relevant products, quickly and easily. As part of this, the scope will include:

• Geographies (we’re using GeoJSON, PostGIS & Redis geospatial indexes).
• Search typeahead & typeahead relevancy tuning (currently in Postgres, moving to OpenSearch).
• Ingestion and indexing of data across all product verticals (we’re using Amazon SQS, Postgres, Redis, and OpenSearch).
• Of course, our search results page - what we show, and how we show it. We’re also evaluating vector databases for effective free text search.