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Senior C++ Developer - Indexing Engine
- Montreal (Province of Quebec, Canada); Province of Quebec (Canada)
- Research and Development
- Full-time
- Hybrid
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The expert behind our proprietary C++ indexing technology
Could your next optimization improve how millions of pieces of content become searchable? As a Senior C++ Developer on our indexing team, you'll help evolve the core technology powering Coveo’s indexing and search engine.
You'll work on large-scale systems where performance, scalability, and reliability matter every day, helping shape the technologies behind our AI-powered search experiences.
As one of our Senior C++ Developers, you will: .
- Design, develop, and optimize modern C++ code for Coveo’s indexing and search engine technologies.
- Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of core indexing algorithms and infrastructure.
- Work on low-level systems challenges involving memory management, concurrency, data structures, distributed processing, and high-throughput indexing.
- Analyze existing systems, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements that make our engine faster and more efficient.
- Contribute to the architecture of new core indexing capabilities that support Coveo’s search and AI-powered experiences.
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, and product teams to transform complex search requirements into robust engine-level capabilities.
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
- A minimum of about 5 years of experience in software development with C++, with familiarity with C++17 or newer as a strong asset.
- Strong experience building performant, reusable, scalable, and maintainable code in complex systems.
- A solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and systems-level performance considerations.
- Resourcefulness, a growth mindset, and a track record of solving complex technical problems.
What would make you stand out:
- Experience building large-scale indexing, search, or information retrieval systems.
- Experience optimizing C++ applications for latency, throughput, or memory efficiency.
- Experience developing cloud-hosted distributed systems.
- Familiarity with vector search, AI-powered search, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, or similar technologies.
Do you think you can bring this role to life? 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.
