Enigma
Senior Software Engineer, Match Team
$180K–$240K
New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 2, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA
245 5th ave. 17th Fl. New York, NY 10016 - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, low-latency search and retrieval systems that deliver Enigma’s customer-facing data products.
What you'll do
- Design and build search APIs, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems; improve latency, scalability, and performance.
- Lead work across technical design, implementation, productionization, and customer-facing delivery; investigate system and data-freshness issues.
- Partner with product, engineering, and client stakeholders; mentor teammates and promote engineering quality and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- Strong programming proficiency in Python and experience in cloud environments; AWS preferred.
- Experience designing, fine-tuning, and operating high-scale backend systems, APIs, or data delivery platforms.
- Production-level expertise in at least two of distributed systems, information retrieval, or high-scale API development.
- Collaborative approach, clear communication of technical concepts and tradeoffs, and strong ownership.
Nice to have
- Experience with Typesense, Python, AWS, or similar retrieval infrastructure such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or FAISS.
- Experience building customer-facing search or recommendation systems or APIs.
Pay
$180,000-$240,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Typesense, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, FAISS
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