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title: 'Senior Search Engineer at amo'
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# Senior Search Engineer at amo

- **Company:** amo
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/amo/3bff5414-221e-4133-838a-aca3a5cddd0b

## Job description

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build and improve search across multiple entity types.
- Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
- Design metrics and feedback loops for search quality.
- Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
- Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.
- Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.
- Work closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.

## MUST HAVE

- Senior-level experience building production search systems.
- Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
- Experience with geospatial search.
- Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.
- Experience evaluating, tuning, extending, or building search/indexing systems beyond basic API usage.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with local search, maps, discovery, or multi-entity search systems.
- Experience with semantic search, embeddings, ranking, recommendations, or personalization.
- Experience with Rust search/indexing systems or similar low-level indexing primitives.
- Experience building search systems over multiple heterogeneous entity types.

## LIFE AT AMO

To ensure that everyone is set up for success within our way of working, we work together onsite 5 days a week.

We wanted to make sure coming to the office was as comfortable as possible for you:

- We chose a location in central Paris, near Opera (Metro lines 3,8,9 and RER A).
- We have a beautiful Parisian-style office with high ceilings, balconies, and huge windows. So a lot of natural light!

Because life outside of work should also be stress-free, we cover:

- Health care (100% coverage).
- Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%).
- Vacation days: 8-9 weeks (total) per year - (European summer? 🥹😎).
- 5 weeks of paid time off (by the state);
- 1-2 additional weeks (RTT, based on our company contract);
- ~11 bank holidays.

We shut down entirely twice a year, two weeks in summer and one week in winter to allow everyone to truly recharge and to avoid prolonged slowdowns (especially in the summer). These pauses are part of your total vacation time, giving everyone a real chance to unplug and recharge. No Slack, no email, no FOMO.

## About amo

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: amo is building a collection of social apps (ID, Bump, Sugar) designed to bring friends closer together in a digital space, moving away from scrolling strangers to sharing moments with real friends.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business

- Primary industry/industries: Consumer social media / mobile applications
- Target customers: B2C – individuals and their friend groups, especially those who want a more private, friend-focused online experience
- Mission or purpose statement: “We believe that friendship still deserves a place online.” (from amo.co)

## Products & Services

- **ID**: A collaborative social profile board where you and your friends can express yourselves together.
- **Bump**: A map app “for friends” that gives you a new home on your phone for the people and places most important to you.
- **Sugar**: A chat app that goes beyond the traditional messaging bubble, offering an unlimited canvas to turn conversations into art.

All three apps share a single profile, friendships, and settings across the amo ecosystem, allowing users to pick and choose what they use.

## Market Standing

- **Valuation / Latest Funding**: Not publicly disclosed. The company states it is “backed by some of the best tier-1 investors in the world” and is “growing at a pace that hasn’t been seen in our space in the past five years.”
- **Key Metric**: 148 total employees (per Built In profile as of mid-2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in available sources, but described as “tier-1 investors.”
- **Growth Signals**: 17 nationalities represented; over half the team is international; one in four employees relocated cities or countries to join; multiple senior engineering roles open across Android, iOS, backend (Rust, Safety, AI), SRE, and product design.

## Competitive Advantages

- **Multi-app ecosystem with a shared identity**: Unlike single-app social platforms, amo’s suite lets users carry their profile and friends across apps without redundancy.
- **Friend-first focus**: The company deliberately avoids the “scrolling strangers” model and builds features that mirror real-life friend interactions (maps, collaborative boards, creative chat).
- **Velocity and experimentation**: The culture values speed, quick iteration, and learning from mistakes; new apps are released independently rather than crammed into one tab bar.
- **Global talent strategy**: An intentionally international team with relocation support and English as the working language, enabling access to top talent worldwide.

## Strategic Focus

- **Expand the app ecosystem**: Continue launching new, standalone apps that serve specific friend-group needs.
- **Balance art and science**: Blend creative, fun product design (“making people smile”) with rigorous engineering and data-driven decisions.
- **Scale the team**: Active hiring across engineering, AI, SRE, product design, and recruiting – with an emphasis on in-office collaboration in Paris.
- **Maintain a lean, performance-driven culture**: Emphasize outcomes over busywork, fast decision-making, and a “healthy intensity.”

## Why Work Here

- Culture highlights: “Velocity over all else,” high ownership, conviction over consensus, fast iteration. The company describes itself as a “performance machine” where ambitious goals are set and celebrated. The team is described as “a group of friends who have spent our lives building stuff for friends.”
- Remote/hybrid/office policy: In-office at the Paris headquarters. Relocation support is provided, and one in four employees has moved to join.
- Notable perks or engineering culture: Structured, bias-mitigating interviews with a fast decision cycle (average 72 hours). Technical depth is valued – interviews include debugging real code, concurrency/design, and cultural panels that include a team lunch. The engineering stack involves Rust, AI, Android, iOS, and SRE roles.
- Diversity: 17 nationalities, English as the working language (no English required at hire, but learned within months), and a global hiring philosophy.

## Sources

1. [amo.co](https://amo.co/)
2. [amo Careers Page](https://amo.co/jobs/)
3. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/amo)
4. [amo Interview Process](https://amo.co/interview-at-amo/)
5. [Welcome to the Jungle Jobs](https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/amo/jobs)

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