Senior Software Engineer (Match Team)

• This is a critical and exciting time at Enigma. Our customers consistently tell us that our data products create tremendous value and are deeply aligned with their most important workflows. As demand grows, we have an urgent opportunity to improve both the intelligence of our data and the systems through which customers access it
• We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Match Team and help shape the next generation of Enigma’s customer-facing data products
• You will play a central role in architecting, building, and managing the critical engineering systems required to power fast, relevant, and reliable search and retrieval experiences at scale. This is a uniquely high-impact role sitting at the intersection of information retrieval, distributed systems, microservices, and customer data delivery
• At the core of Enigma’s product is our data, which makes delivery systems central to what we build
• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Match Team, you will lead efforts that improve the latency and scalability of our customer-facing data products. You’ll work across the full software lifecycle: translating product requirements into technical designs, and implementing high-throughput search and retrieval systems
• Build scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments
• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput search APIs, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems using Python, Typesense, and AWS
• Evaluate and evolve our search technology stack, driving technical design decisions across retrieval architecture, indexing strategies, and system performance tradeoffs
• Solve problems with containers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS, and Terraform)
• Lead end-to-end work from design and implementation through productionization and customer-facing delivery
• Detect and investigate anomalies in system performance and data freshness, tracing issues to root cause
• Pride themselves on writing highly readable, thoroughly tested code
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to improve search experience and discoverability
• Mentor teammates and help raise the bar for system design and operational excellence

Benefits

• Family Medical Leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Generous Parental Leave - Enigma offers 12 weeks paid leave for all new parents and 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents
• Daily sync
• Volunteer in local community
• Friends outside of work
• Team owned deliverables
• Pair programming
• Team based strategic planning
• Eat lunch together
• Group brainstorming sessions
• Remote Work Program - Enigma has a hybrid-remote working culture. Our employees work from anywhere but are always welcome at our office in NYC

• This role is ideal for an engineer who is excited by hard search problems and the systems challenges of delivering low-latency, production-grade retrieval systems
• Thrives in highly collaborative environments with strong ownership and fast iteration cycles
• Effectively communicates technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated applied, production-level expertise in two or more of the following technical domains: distributed systems, information retrieval, or high-scale API development
• Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world
• Has experience designing, fine-tuning, and operating high-scale backend systems, APIs, or data delivery platforms
• Has strong programming proficiency in Python and experience operating within cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Enjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, other engineers, our client stakeholders) to set clear expectations and solve common problems
• We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data—together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!
• Have deep experience with our core stack (Typesense, Python, AWS) or similar retrieval infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, FAISS)
• Have extensive experience engineering SaaS data products
• Have mentored senior engineers and raised the technical bar across disciplines
• Have an outstanding track record of leading engineering teams
• Have built customer-facing search or recommendation systems or APIs