# Senior Backend Engineer, Search at ClickUp

- Company: ClickUp
- What the company does: Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat. Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.
- Company website: https://clickup.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickup/58cbf9f5-0686-437d-9356-34dff0048248
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clickup-senior-backend-engineer-search/

## About the role

As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure. Our platform is built as backend services on top of Postgres and OpenSearch, focused on real-time search ingestion and serving. You'll work hands-on with these systems to ensure users can instantly find exactly what they need across their workspace. Your expertise will directly contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
- Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch (strongly preferred), Solr experience considered but less ideal given its age
- Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend services context
- Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
- Experience measuring and optimizing search quality

Tags: Engineering