Senior Search Backend Engineer (Scala) – Discovery Team, Hybrid

commercetools is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to join the Discovery Team in a hybrid role. You will build the retrieval layer behind product discovery for leading commerce brands, tackling semantic and hybrid retrieval from query understanding to index and query costs.

You will design, implement and improve search capabilities on a JVM-based backend, leveraging Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kubernetes and Terraform. English‑speaking, multi‑tenant SaaS experience encouraged.