--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) at Solvd' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-elasticsearch-scala-solvd-georgia-x96b86z9a68m' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-29' --- # Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) at Solvd - **Company:** Solvd - **Location:** Georgia - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solvd/a196a4c6-0ce7-40b3-b145-356ea6e47e36 ## Job description Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Following the acquisition of Tooploox, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true end-to-end delivery—from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering food search and logging for one of the world’s leading health and nutrition platforms. You’ll contribute directly to the systems that drive search — backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation — with a focus on improving core metrics: conversion rates, time to log, query abandonment, and result relevance. ## What you’ll do - Contribute to, build, and maintain backend services that drive the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization. - Perform search performance tuning end-to-end — data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement within Elasticsearch. - Assist in the evaluation and implementation of search and data technologies that improve result quality and user experience. - Collaborate closely with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery, experiment planning, and delivery. - Contribute to the development of tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality. Required skills & experience Elasticsearch - Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, query analysis, and relevance optimization in Elasticsearch at scale. - Strong understanding of index design, mapping strategies, cluster management, and scoring/ranking mechanics. - Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring for Elasticsearch clusters. - Ability to deploy new indexes or clusters as needed for load balancing or experimentation. - Ability to translate product specifications into technical requirements and deploy ranking and relevance experiments with clearly defined success criteria and metrics. Scala - Strong experience writing, shipping, and maintaining Scala services in production. - Comfortable working across a stack that also includes SQL and Python — Scala is the primary language for this engagement. Agentic development - Active user of AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable AI-powered coding environments — shipping production code with them, not just using autocomplete. - Familiarity with agentic coding patterns and workflows — code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring. - Able to articulate how AI tooling fits into their development process and where human judgment remains critical. Engineering fundamentals - First-hand experience building, scaling, and supporting large-scale data infrastructure systems in production. - Strong understanding of database design, data architecture, and performance tuning across multiple data stores — MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar. - Experience with high-volume messaging systems such as Kafka. - Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms. - Strong peer code review practices. ## Preferred qualifications - Experience leveraging AI workflows for meaningful development acceleration beyond autocomplete — code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring at scale. When you join Solvd, you'll… - Shape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries, working with clients from startup innovation to enterprise transformation. - Be part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration across continents and cultures. - Thrive in an inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards. Ready to make an impact? If you're excited to build things that matter, champion responsible AI, and grow with some of the industry’s sharpest minds. Apply today and let’s innovate together. Solvd is an equal opportunity employer. ## About Solvd ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Solvd is an AI engineering company that builds, implements, and runs production-grade AI systems for enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no public funding rounds disclosed) - **Headquarters**: Walnut Creek, California, USA - **Founded**: 2011 (Roseville, California) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI engineering, enterprise AI consulting, custom AI systems, cloud & data infrastructure, agentic software engineering. - **Target customers**: Large enterprises requiring reliable, auditable, and scalable AI solutions (B2B, Enterprise). - **Mission or purpose statement**: “We build AI systems that still work when you scale.” – emphasis on responsible, human-centered AI that remains reliable in production. ## Products & Services - **[Core AI]**: Custom AI systems for computer vision, NLP, and agentic workflows, backed by a research team that won a Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2025. - **[AI Data & Cloud]**: Data pipelines, cloud architecture, and governance systems that enable AI to run reliably at scale. - **[Agentic Software Engineering]**: Software delivery that combines deep engineering expertise with AI-native tooling to accelerate development and modernize legacy systems. Solvd also offers QA automation and digital transformation services (evolved from its 2011 origins). ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: 750+ global team members across 10 locations (as of mid-2025); 150+ AI/ML specialists. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Partners with Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and Databricks. - **Growth Signals**: - Acquired EastBanc Technologies (October 2025) and Tooploox (June 2025) to deepen AI research and enterprise capabilities. - Published NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper (“1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL…”), co-authored by Chief Scientist Tomasz Trzciński. - Transitioned from a QA-focused firm to an AI-first global engineering company (“Solvd 2.0” launched March 2025). ## Competitive Advantages - **Research-backed engineering**: NeurIPS Best Paper demonstrates world-class AI research capability. - **Deep partnerships**: Works side-by-side with Anthropic, OpenAI, and major cloud providers to define agentic protocols. - **Production track record**: 10+ years of building and deploying AI systems that remain reliable at scale. - **Global delivery model**: 10 offices/delivery hubs across the Americas, Europe, and Georgia allowing near-shore collaboration. ## Strategic Focus - Responsible AI by design (explainability, auditability, human-in-the-loop). - Scaling enterprise AI through a combination of custom development, platform partnerships, and reusable assets. - Continued expansion via acquisitions and hiring in AI engineering, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Collaborative, people-first culture that emphasizes innovation and integrity. Employees describe a balance of forward-thinking and human relationships. - **Remote / Hybrid**: Specific policy not stated, but team works across 10 global locations (USA, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Turkey, Romania). Likely hybrid or remote-friendly given the distributed model. - **Notable perks**: Access to cutting-edge AI research; opportunity to work with top AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI); cross-location collaboration; free training initiative (Solvd.Laba). - **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on responsible AI, production reliability, and continuous learning. ## Sources 1. [solvd.com – Company Home](https://solvd.com/) 2. [solvd.com – About Us](https://solvd.com/about-us/) 3. [solvd.com – Careers](https://solvd.com/careers/) 4. [solvd.com – Job Openings](https://solvd.com/careers/job-openings/) 5. 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