Hybrid Software Development Engineer III

at ZAGENO Inc.

• Job title: Software Development Engineer III
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Kubernetes, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• SDE-3 leading a talented team to improve product discovery at ZAGENO. Collaborative role focused on AI-driven search systems and exceptional customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of backend,and FE engineers focused on Search, Ranking, and Product Discovery.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, and UX teams to define the long-term search roadmap.
• Drive architecture and design discussions for scalable and intelligent search systems.
• Foster a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee end-to-end design, development, and optimization of search pipelines (indexing, query processing, ranking).
• Own search KPIs — including relevance, latency, clickthrough rate, and conversion metrics.
• Implement experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, offline evaluation) to measure search quality improvements.
• Guide migration or scaling of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch infrastructure and ensure data freshness, accuracy, and resilience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, UX designers, and marketplace stakeholders.
• Communicate technical trade-offs, project risks, and roadmap progress effectively to business leadership.
• Partner with analytics teams to translate user behavior data into actionable search insights.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of total engineering experience, including some technical lead role
• Strong technical foundation in search, ranking, and retrieval systems (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar).
• Proven experience in eCommerce search or large-scale catalog discovery systems.
• Proven experience in tracking sprint health, predictability, and delivery.
• Hands-on experience with Python/Java and modern backend frameworks.
• Experience designing data pipelines for indexing, enrichment, and query understanding.
• Understanding of search relevance tuning, synonyms, embeddings, re-ranking, and personalization.
• Strong architectural skills — ability to design scalable, high-availability search systems.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Exposure to LLMs or vector search (semantic/embedding search) for product discovery.
• Experience with GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for production-grade deployments.

Benefits

• Working for a mission-driven business with a meaningful challenge with a positive impact on the scientific community
• A clear growth perspective
• A learning and development budget to enable your ambitions to grow professionally in your field
• A professional and dynamic team with a global vision and mindset
• An exciting, international working environment - we have more than 40 nationalities!
• We’ve got your health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
• Hybrid Work with 3 days work from office in our Marathahalli, Bangalore office
• Staying healthy and fit is essential - we cover a part of your gym membership!
• Holidays and flexible PTO
• Paid family leave
• A budget to improve your home office environment