Senior Software Engineer, Search & Recommendations

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential streaming technology organization seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Search & Recommendations team in Cambridge. In this role, you will:

• Build extremely large-scale platform products and services used by engineers across the organization and directly by consumers across millions of devices
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to iterate and build software, taking concepts from ideation to production deployment and support
• Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Participate in Agile development processes, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Leverage AI-powered development tools to accelerate coding workflows and improve engineering productivity

What We're Looking For

Our client is looking for a senior engineer with proven expertise in building cloud services at scale. The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong software development experience in Java (Python is a plus)
• Expertise in building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS
• Experience in the appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of trade-offs
• Experience with in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, Memcached, or similar technologies
• Track record of monitoring the quality of deployments and troubleshooting production systems
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end web architecture, from end-user device to a service in a data centre
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain—coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agentic frameworks—and can describe projects where these tools made you measurably faster
• Ability to drive an agent, validate its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you

This role involves working on browse and discovery services that power content platforms serving millions of users globally. You'll work closely with product teams to rapidly iterate on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release. Scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation are always top of mind.

How We Work with You

Candidates apply through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will screen your application and conduct an initial interview to understand your background and goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication flows through our recruiting team to ensure a smooth process for everyone.

The work arrangement is hybrid, with in-office presence Monday through Thursday in Cambridge, and flexible remote work on Fridays.

Pay

Pay details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

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