# Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack (Search) at Sidecarhealth

- Company: Sidecarhealth
- What the company does: Get flexible, affordable health insurance with Sidecar Health. Choose your provider, see costs upfront, and save on care with our innovative approach. Backed by Menlo.
- Company website: https://sidecarhealth.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sidecarhealth/jobs/6121520004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sidecarhealth-staff-software-engineer-full-stack-search/

## About the role

If you want to use your talents to transform healthcare in the United States, come join us! We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own search at Sidecar Health end to end: the OpenSearch clusters, the ingestion pipelines that feed them, the relevance and ranking logic, the APIs that serve results, and the reporting that tells the business how well search is working. You'll be embedded in the Member Experience engineering team, and you'll be the person the company turns to for every decision about search.

## What they're looking for

- Own our AWS OpenSearch domains: index design, mappings, analyzers, cluster sizing, performance, cost, and upgrades
- Design and evolve our search APIs so that product surfaces can query drugs, practices, and future verticals consistently
- Lead the expansion of search to new content types (labs, imaging centers, and beyond), including the data model and index strategy for each
- Own relevance quality: query understanding, synonyms and terminology handling, typo tolerance, geo-aware ranking, and boosting on quality and cost signals
- Evolve our hybrid search approach, combining lexical and semantic (vector) retrieval in OpenSearch, and decide where embeddings and LLMs do and don't belong in the query path
- Define how we measure search quality (relevance judgments, zero-result rate, click-through, conversion) and build the tooling and experiments to improve it

Tags: Engineering