Senior Staff Software Engineer (Search) - Poland JD

Who are we?

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service.

Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes BuildBook, construction management software for builders and remodelers, and CONQUER, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success. We support more than 45,000 businesses and have over 1,800 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving employees across the United States and worldwide (including Poland 🇵🇱).

Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law.

If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.

🚀 About the role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer - Search, you are a critical individual contributor and architectural leader within our engineering organization. You drive the long-term technical vision of our platform, guiding how we design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable systems across multiple squads. As a high-impact, high-autonomy technical leader, you combine deep technical contributions with influential cross-team collaboration, helping shape the future of our platform to better serve our customers.

You are the expert in Search. We have an existing search platform built on OpenSearch/ElasticSearch and MySQL infrastructure that allows our Pros to search for critical information across our platform. We are looking for someone with significant experience operating in the context of elasticsearch in scaled environments. Ideally the candidate will also be familiar with modern AI based conversational search and generative LLM capabilities that enhance search frameworks.

You act as a strategic technical leader and advisor to Engineering Managers, Directors, and Product stakeholders, driving alignment on complex search challenges and architectural direction. You take ownership of our most technically demanding search initiatives while mentoring engineers across teams. A key part of your role is accelerating our transformation from a primarily DB driven search framework to a modern, scaled search platform.

Our team is passionate, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.

Compensation: 11,300 - 12,500 USD per month (B2B)

🚀 We also offer:

• Paid time off
• Flexible work hours
• Equity shares in a rapidly growing company backed by top-tier VCs
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas
• We work in Central European Time
• Newest MacBook + Setup Fee ($500)

🚀Being a Senior Staff Engineer (Search) at Housecall Pro means:

• Building a product that improves users’ lives (75k unique daily users, 4.6 ⭐at App Store) - learn more about the Housecall Pro mission
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of search tooling
• Collaborating with a mature, interdisciplinary dev team, engineering leaders, and architects to design and deliver high-performance, scalable, and reliable architecture
• Develop a facilitation framework to support domain team work that requires advanced and/or scaled search capabilities
• Exposure to vector search, semantic embeddings, or hybrid search models (e.g., combining lexical + semantic).
• Practical use of LLMs for search augmentation (e.g., retrieval-augmented generation or conversational search).
• Experience designing and maintaining indexing pipelines, analyzers, custom scoring functions, and relevance tuning.
• Clear understanding of inverted indexes, tokenization, query parsing, and ranking models.
• Familiarity with search architecture trade-offs (e.g., denormalization vs. join performance, real-time vs. batch indexing).
• Being a mentor for other engineers across the organization

🚀 What do you need to get this job?

• 9+ years of experience designing, building, and operating complex production systems
• 5+ years of experience with search infrastructure and tooling
• Deep expertise with cloud platforms (i.e. AWS), containerization, and serverless/cloud-native architectures
• Proven success applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles across multiple teams or domains
• Mentoring experience, particularly in building search capability within broader teams unfamiliar with it.
• Evidence of driving search strategy across squads—alignment on trade-offs, customer outcomes, and roadmap impact.
• Strong background in system observability practices (logs, metrics, tracing) and performance diagnostics
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• A strong passion for using AI technologies to enhance productivity, quality, and innovation
• Curiosity and drive to stay ahead of emerging AI/ML technologies and their practical applications
• Ownership mentality with a balance of urgency and long-term system health

Sounds interesting?

We're waiting for your resume!

This role is open to candidates inside Poland. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.