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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer, Search at ClickUp'
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# Senior Backend Engineer, Search at ClickUp

- **Company:** [ClickUp](https://feeny.ai/companies/clickup)
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickup/58cbf9f5-0686-437d-9356-34dff0048248/application

**Skills:** OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Search technologies, Query parsing, Indexing, Relevance tuning, High-volume distributed data processing systems, Vector embeddings, Semantic search, TypeScript, Machine learning, NLP, Information retrieval concepts, Search evaluation metrics

> ClickUp is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, optimize, and scale search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch. The role involves improving search relevance, speed, and vector search capabilities while collaborating with AI and backend teams to enhance the platform's core functionality.

## Job description

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities. As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for optimizing and enhancing our search functionality, which is a critical feature of our platform and underpins our AI efforts.

## Your impact at ClickUp

As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure. Our platform is built as backend services on top of Postgres and OpenSearch, focused on real-time search ingestion and serving. You'll work hands-on with these systems to ensure users can instantly find exactly what they need across their workspace. Your expertise will directly contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available. Core Responsibilities

- Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
- Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
- Improve our real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
- Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
- Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
- Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
- Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale
- Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
- Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
- Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
- Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
- Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
- Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
- Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale

Technical Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
- Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch (strongly preferred); Solr experience considered but less ideal given its age
- Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend services context.
- Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
- Experience measuring and optimizing search quality

Preferred Qualifications:

- Background in search ranking, relevance algorithms, and information retrieval
- Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations
- Experience with TypeScript in backend systems
- Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load
- Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance

Join Our Mission At ClickUp, we're committed to building the future of productivity software. As our Search Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the core functionality of our platform and driving our AI initiatives forward. Join us in our mission to make the world more productive!

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## Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Privacy Notice ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can find further details by viewing our [Global Candidate Privacy Notice.](https://clickup.com/careers-terms/candidate-privacy-notice) If you are a Philippine Job Applicant, please also see our [Philippine Data Privacy Notice](https://t333.s.clickup-attachments-stg.com/t333/d9a53ce2-6d2c-48cd-84b1-ed4e525f9613/Philippine%20Data%20Privacy%20Notice_2024.pdf?view=open) for further details.

Visa Sponsorship Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time. Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

Fraud Alert ClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @[clickup.com](http://clickup.com) email or through our official careers portal on [clickup.com](http://clickup.com). We will never request fees, payments, or sensitive personal information. Please disregard any offers received outside these channels and report them to support@clickup.com.

AI Processing Notice ClickUp may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to help review and screen candidates' employment applications against role-related criteria. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision‑making. If you have questions or need an accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at AskPeople@ClickUp.com.

## About ClickUp

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ClickUp provides an all-in-one productivity platform that replaces fragmented work tools with a unified solution for tasks, documents, collaboration, and AI-powered agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Diego, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Productivity Software / Project Management / AI Agents
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving teams of all sizes from SMBs to 85% of the Fortune 500 [clickup.com]
- **Mission**: Maximize human productivity by fundamentally reinventing how work gets done through the convergence of software, AI, and humans [clickup.com/careers]

## Products & Services
- **ClickUp Platform**: The core product — an everything app for work combining tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards, goals, timelines, and 100+ product replacements [clickup.com]
- **Brain²**: ClickUp’s AI engine that intelligently routes tasks to the best frontier model (GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini, etc.) with full workspace context, memory, and preferences [clickup.com]
- **Super Agents**: Configurable AI agents that automate workflows — including PM Agent, Assign Agent, and Live Answers Agent — with the ability to build custom agents using any MCP (Model Context Protocol) connection [clickup.com]
- **ClickUp Apps**: Integrations with Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, Slack, and thousands of other tools [clickup.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $4 billion (latest round, per Tracxn) [tracxn.com]
- **Total Funding**: $535 million raised [tracxn.com]
- **Key Metric**: Over 5 million teams use ClickUp; 85% of Fortune 500 companies are customers [clickup.com]
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Craft Ventures [tracxn.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 1,529 employees as of March 2026; strong adoption of AI agents with 3M+ tasks automated; Forrester TEI study reports 384% ROI and payback in under 6 months for customers [tracxn.com, clickup.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Convergence over bundling**: Unlike competitors who bolt together separate tools, ClickUp was built from the ground up as one unified platform, giving Brain² full context across all work types (tasks, docs, conversations, files) — context that competitor AI tools lack [clickup.com/about]
- **Model-agnostic AI**: Brain² intelligently routes each query to the best frontier model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), delivering optimal performance without vendor lock-in [clickup.com]
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant, with AI privacy protections exceeding standard enterprise SaaS [clickup.com]
- **Massive product surface area**: 100+ products in one platform means customers can consolidate an entire tech stack, creating deep switching costs

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first convergence**: Deep investment in AI agents (Super Agents) and ambient intelligence that anticipates user needs rather than just responding to commands [clickup.com]
- **Platform expansion**: Continuing to absorb adjacent tool categories (chat, docs, whiteboards, goals) to eliminate toggling between apps [clickup.com/careers]
- **Enterprise scale**: Targeting larger deployments with proven ROI data and robust compliance/security posture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: The company emphasizes grit, growth mindset (“grow 1% every day”), passion, and hard work. Core value: “Normal f*cking sucks” — a rejection of status quo thinking [clickup.com/careers]
- **Impact**: Employees are empowered to work across AI, product, and engineering — “you don’t need to be an engineer to dive deep into leveraging AI” [clickup.com/careers]
- **Work model**: Remote-friendly with offices in San Diego (HQ), United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, and globally [clickup.com/about]
- **Perks**: Generous PTO, health plans, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and parental leave [clickup.com/careers]
- **Growth**: The company explicitly hires for potential impact and supports “building your boldest career”; recent headcount of 1,529 signals continued scaling [tracxn.com, clickup.com/careers]

## Sources
1. [ClickUp Careers Page](https://clickup.com/careers)
2. [ClickUp About Page](https://clickup.com/about)
3. [ClickUp Homepage](https://clickup.com/)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/clickup/__lm2pfON0Ef7h6Fu5h9GkLd9_fspnDEnBOL2bEKJxWkg)

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