Senior Search Engine Backend Engineer

About the role

Patsnap, a global pre-IPO company that helps organizations use their intellectual property and research and development more effectively, is looking for a Senior Search Engine Engineer to join its core technology team. You will design, develop and optimize the company's core product search system, improving user experience through advanced search technologies and data insights. This is an in-office position based in the Singapore office.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and optimize the company's core product search system
• Optimize and enhance the search evaluation platform, proposing and implementing strategies to improve search effectiveness
• Design and build systems for mining search logs and analyzing user behavior to find actionable insights

Required profile

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java and Python
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for continuous learning and technical excellence
• A background in information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining is highly preferred

Required skills

• Solid understanding of search engine technologies, including tokenization, indexing, weighting, scoring and ranking algorithms
• Deep familiarity with open-source search engines such as Lucene, Solr and Elasticsearch, with proven experience in secondary development
• Hands-on experience in search relevance algorithms, ranking algorithms and personalized search techniques