[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - Search @H1

Role Description

As a Sr. Product Engineer on the Search and Insights Engineering team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and evolving the H1 Knowledge Graph and Search platform. You will own the technical direction of our customer-facing platform — driving architecture decisions, defining standards, and leading critical business features impacting the product and users.

• Own the full lifecycle of platform features design and development — from problem definition and schema modeling through implementation, versioned rollout, and deprecation planning.
• Lead Search and Knowledge graph Platform evolution efforts to reduce redundancy, optimize payload size, and improve usability.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into clear technical specifications and well-scoped Jira tickets, while remaining hands-on in the codebase.
• Own and evolve data pipelines and transformation workflows that support Search and Knowledge graph Platform.
• Define and implement scalable integration patterns (Search and Knowledge graph Platforms) to support internal and external data exchange.
• Drive system performance and scalability improvements as data volume and product complexity grow.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex system and data issues, establishing best practices across reliability, observability, testing, and data quality.
• Ensure data security, integrity, and compliance with governance and regulatory standards.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the team.
• Leverage AI-first development practices (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to improve speed and quality of engineering output.

Qualifications

• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and takes ownership across systems and projects.
• Deep expertise in Search and Knowledge graph Platform design, data engineering, and distributed systems.
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive alignment across teams.
• Excel at balancing hands-on development with technical leadership.
• Comfortable owning initiatives from concept through production and iteration.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code, setting a high bar for engineering quality.
• Strong experience diagnosing complex system and data issues and driving improvements.
• Deep experience designing and evolving Elastic Search and Knowledge graph Platforms.
• Comfortable authoring technical design documents and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.
• Effectively influence architecture decisions and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

• Strong coding skills in Python or NodeJS for high-availability Search and Knowledge graph Platform development.
• Experience designing and operating data systems and pipelines at scale.
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Git, JIRA, and CI/CD platforms (e.g., CircleCI).
• Proven experience designing and evolving external-facing Search and Knowledge graph Platforms, including versioning, pagination, and deprecation strategies.
• Experience with ElasticSearch, ETL/Search and Knowledge graph Platform design, healthcare data domains, or customer-facing data delivery systems is a plus.

Benefits

• Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off.
• Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays.
• Retirement options.
• Health & charitable donation stipends.
• Impactful Business Resource Groups.
• Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere.
• The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe.