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Senior Software Developer, Search
- Montreal (Province of Quebec, Canada); Quebec City (Province of Quebec, Canada)
- Research and Development
- Full-time
- Hybrid
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Build the future of intelligent search
Why build just another backend service when you can shape the search technology powering an entire product ecosystem? As a Senior Software Developer on our Search team, you'll help evolve Coveo's search capabilities, delivering intelligent, scalable search experiences to thousands of organizations around the world.
You'll tackle high-impact technical challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, search technology, platform engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI). Whether your expertise is in C++ or Java, you'll help build the next generation of search experiences that power Coveo's products.
As one of our Senior Software Developers, Search, you will:
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable search capabilities using C++ or Java within Coveo's platform.
- Build and evolve platform services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and extensibility mechanisms that enable search capabilities across multiple Coveo products.
- Contribute to the integration, evolution, and optimization of large-scale search technologies that support our growing product ecosystem.
- Improve interoperability between Coveo's platform and complementary search technologies or external systems.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, Data Scientists, and Software Developers to deliver impactful search solutions.
- Analyze existing services and contribute to the architecture of new platform capabilities that improve scalability, reliability, and performance.
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
- 5+yrs of professional software development experience using C++ or Java.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable, reusable, high-quality software within a complex platform or product environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate multiple technologies and system boundaries.
- A collaborative mindset, strong ownership, curiosity, and a continuous desire to learn and improve.
What would make you stand out:
- Experience working with large-scale search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, or similar platforms.
- Experience building backend services, application programming interfaces (APIs), developer platforms, or product integrations.
- Experience with distributed systems and large-scale cloud-native applications.
- Knowledge of information retrieval, indexing, query execution, vector search, or artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search technologies.
Do you think you can bring this role to life? Or add your own color? You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
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We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
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Coveo is a Quebec-based company, pioneer in AI-powered search and recommendations. Coveo uses AI technologies and intelligent search to personalize every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified content, unified interactions behavioral data and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, e-commerce, contact centers and intranets efficient, effortless, content-rich, thus boosting conversion.
If it were easy, someone else would have done it. All of our colleagues at Coveo find the drive to continuously seek new challenges and test roads no one else has ever explored. This ethos has allowed us to become a world leader in an innovative industry and to create a collaborative, diverse and trusting place to work filled with amazingly talented and passionate people. We love a good challenge, and we never say no to an opportunity to learn and develop new cutting-edge skills. Discover our values here
In-person
This role requires you to be in the office full-time, whether it be at our Quebec, Montreal, Weert, or London locations. Our modern infrastructures are designed to enhance cross-team collaboration and promote overall well-being.
Hybrid
Our offices in Quebec City, Montreal, London and Weert are designed to foster collaboration and your well-being. We gather there on our pillar days two times a week to strengthen in-person interactions and encourage creativity, all while providing you with the flexibility of a hybrid environment.
Remote
We hire from all over the world because the diversity of backgrounds fuels our continuous innovation. Our benefits will enable you to work comfortably from home, but you may be required to travel to attend our in-person team-building events.
