Why build just another backend service when you can shape the search technology powering an entire product ecosystem? As a Senior Software Developer on our Search team, you'll help evolve Coveo's search capabilities, delivering intelligent, scalable search experiences to thousands of organizations around the world.
You'll tackle high-impact technical challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, search technology, platform engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI). Whether your expertise is in C++ or Java, you'll help build the next generation of search experiences that power Coveo's products.
As one of our Senior Software Developers, Search, you will:
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable search capabilities using C++ or Java within Coveo's platform.
- Build and evolve platform services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and extensibility mechanisms that enable search capabilities across multiple Coveo products.
- Contribute to the integration, evolution, and optimization of large-scale search technologies that support our growing product ecosystem.
- Improve interoperability between Coveo's platform and complementary search technologies or external systems.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, Data Scientists, and Software Developers to deliver impactful search solutions.
- Analyze existing services and contribute to the architecture of new platform capabilities that improve scalability, reliability, and performance.
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
- 5+yrs of professional software development experience using C++ or Java.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable, reusable, high-quality software within a complex platform or product environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate multiple technologies and system boundaries.
- A collaborative mindset, strong ownership, curiosity, and a continuous desire to learn and improve.
What would make you stand out:
- Experience working with large-scale search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, or similar platforms.
- Experience building backend services, application programming interfaces (APIs), developer platforms, or product integrations.
- Experience with distributed systems and large-scale cloud-native applications.
- Knowledge of information retrieval, indexing, query execution, vector search, or artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search technologies.
Do you think you can bring this role to life? Or add your own color? You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
Join the Coveolife!We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software development experience using C++ or Java.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable, reusable, high-quality software within a complex platform or product environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate multiple technologies and system boundaries.
- A collaborative mindset, strong ownership, curiosity, and a continuous desire to learn and improve.
- Experience with large-scale search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, or similar platforms.
- Experience building backend services, application programming interfaces (APIs), developer platforms, or product integrations.
- Experience with distributed systems and large-scale cloud-native applications.
- Knowledge of information retrieval, indexing, query execution, vector search, or AI-powered search technologies.
Coveo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Coveo and has not been reviewed or approved by Coveo.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is considered comprehensive and good value, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, mental‑health support, telemedicine, and an EAP. This breadth and perceived affordability stand out across locations.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, PTO/sick leave, volunteer time off, and work‑from‑home flexibility are commonly available. Flexible working hours and solid vacation policies in Canada further support work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental‑leave top‑ups, options to extend leave, and on‑site daycare in Quebec City indicate robust family support. These provisions complement caregiver‑friendly flexibility in day‑to‑day scheduling.
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What We Do
Coveo powers the digital experiences of the world’s most innovative brands serving millions of people and billions of interactions across every digital experience. After a decade of enriching our market-leading platform with forward-thinking global enterprises, we know what it takes to gain a trusted AI-experience advantage. We strongly believe that the future is business-to-person, that experience is today’s competitive front line, a make or break for every business. For enterprises to achieve this AI-experience advantage at scale, it is imperative to have an Enterprise Spinal and composable ability to deliver AI semantic search and generative experiences at each customer and employee interaction.
