Real innovation starts with a strong foundation, and at commercetools, that comes from the perfect balance of our product and our people.
The kind of people who not only pioneered a more versátil approach to commerce architecture but also shaped the culture of experimentation that approach unlocked. Together, they are the engine of commerce innovation today.
Whether it’s AI-driven solutions that help enterprises make smarter business decisions, bridging digital and physical shopping experiences, or enabling entirely new ways for industries to connect with their customers, we help the world’s most ambitious companies experiment, scale, and grow without limits.
As our Senior Search Engineer , you’ll support the Search Foundation Team by developing a modern, integrated search experience for our customers, providing them with a search API for product discovery and the foundations of search capabilities across domains.
As a Senior Search Engineer on our Discovery Team , you will build the retrieval layer behind product discovery for some of the world’s most demanding commerce brands.




We are on the path to take our semantic and hybrid retrieval to general availability, and tackling the hard problems: making it fast, affordable, measurably better across enterprise catalogs, and working out what comes after it. Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend
Develop search capabilities that combine lexical, semantic, and hybrid retrieval
Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB
Contribute to search relevance and quality, and to how we measure it
Run and maintain a scalable search “infrastructure as code” on top of Kubernetes using terraform and multi-tenant architecture
Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance, and work closely with Product Management and DevOps
Learn Scala and functional programming as your new main development tools
Take part in on-call rotation with a worldwide d

📌 Senior Backend Developer (Valencia)
🏢 Commercetools
📍 Valencia