BENGALURU · FULLTIME
Senior Backend Engineer (Java)
Falabella
Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 62d ago
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About this role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer (Search) to design, build, and optimise large-scale search and discovery systems for e-commerce platforms. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in backend engineering, distributed systems, search technologies, and relevance optimisation, with expertise in building low-latency, high-throughput services. You will work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, and frontend teams to improve search relevance, ranking quality, query understanding, and overall customer discovery experience.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend services powering search, ranking, recommendation, and discovery systems.
- Build and optimise APIs and microservices for high-performance search experiences.
- Develop robust pipelines for ingestion, indexing, and real-time search updates.
- Collaborate with ML and data science teams to productionise ranking and recommendation models.
- Optimise latency, throughput, and reliability of search infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, and debugging mechanisms for search systems.
- Drive engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, CI/CD, documentation, and system design reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions across the platform.
- 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering.
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or Scala.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and scalable backend design.
- Experience designing REST/gRPC APIs and asynchronous event-driven systems.
- Solid understanding of search concepts, including indexing, ranking, relevance, tokenisation, faceting, and query optimisation.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Pub/Sub, Redis, caching strategies, and real-time processing systems.
- Strong SQL and data modelling skills.
- Experience with observability tools, logging, and performance tuning.
- Experience with vector search, semantic search, embeddings, or LLM-powered retrieval systems.
- Hands-on experience working with Elasticsearch/Qdrant or any other search engine.
- Exposure to recommendation systems and personalisation.
- Experience in e-commerce search or large-scale consumer platforms.
- Familiarity with ML ranking pipelines and A/B experimentation frameworks.
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Skills
Asynchronous event-driven systemsfacetingIndexingsearch conceptsScalaApache KafkaPerformance TuningDistributed Systemsgoogle cloud platformamazon web servicesloggingredisData modellingObservability toolsScalable Backend DesignGolangKotlingRPC APIsrankingTokenisationGoogle Cloud Pub Subquery optimisationPythonRelevanceSQLJavaMicroservicesMicrosoft Azure
Section · Company
About Falabella
Falabella
Retail
175
employees
2018
8 years old
Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
About
We are Falabella India. We deliver IT business solutions to the Falabella Group, and this is our commitment: we deliver.
Falabella India enables business strategy through the effective use of technology and innovation. We are a key element in coding the future of the Falabella Group.
Falabella is one of Latin America's leading integrated retailers, with operations in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico. It operates five business units: department stores, home improvement, supermarkets, real estate and financial services (banking, insurance companies and travel).
To work for us means to be part of a bigger picture, a place where you are exposed to not just one but five industries, a chance to learn a new language, it means opportunity for personal growth and career development.
We believe in ownership. So if you think you are passionate, self-driven and feel comfortable dealing with abstract ideas, talk to us! We are eager to talk to you. Join us and get ready for an experience that will shape not only your career but also the way you see the world.
Industries
RetailFashion & Textile
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