Senior Backend Engineer, Search
Clickup · United States · posted Jun 17, 2026
What this role actually asks for
Extracted by RemoteHuntMust have
- •5+ years of experience as a search engineer
- •OpenSearch or ElasticSearch production experience
- •High-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving
- •Optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning
- •Measure and optimize search quality
Nice to have
- •Vector embeddings and semantic search
- •Machine learning and NLP for search relevance
Tools and technologies
The full posting
About the Role At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities. As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for optimizing and enhancing our search functionality, which is a critical feature of our platform and underpins our AI efforts.
Your impact at ClickUp As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure. Our platform is built as backend services on top of
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