About the role

Software Engineer contributing to next-generation applications at Leadership Connect. Building semantic search capabilities and collaborating in a close-knit team to deliver improvements.

Responsibilities

Help build a new semantic search and retrieval capability and integrate it into our production backend.
Work end-to-end across components like indexing, retrieval/ranking, relevance iteration, and evaluation.
Collaborate closely with a small team to ship customer-facing improvements.

3–7 years of professional software engineering experience building backend or data-heavy systems.
Strong backend fundamentals: API design, testing, debugging, performance, and operational thinking.
Production experience in Python and at least one of Kotlin/Java (Kotlin preferred).
Experience with a modern backend framework (e.g., Spring or equivalent) or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in one.
Search/retrieval experience is required: you’ve built or substantially contributed to a search/retrieval system (indexing pipelines, relevance tuning, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, semantic retrieval, ranking, query parsing/understanding, etc.).
Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), data modeling, and query patterns.
Comfortable working in a small team with high ownership and ambiguous problems.