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Senior Software Engineer, Search

France, Paris · Job Posted January 08, 2026
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At Front, our search stack powers intelligent features and algorithms that help surface the most relevant results to users all across the product, improving product navigation, usability and delightfulness. We’re looking for talented, self-motivated engineers with a background and interest in search to join Front's core search team based in Paris. With work on the team ranging from conversation search to contacts autocomplete and spans the Front web, desktop, and mobile apps, we've only begun to scratch the surface of what we hope to see evolve into a unique, universal search experience that underpins the customer communication hub of the future.

Job Responsibility

  • Bring your search expertise to the team to transform our ideas into features, and improve the search experience for thousands of customers
  • Have an impact on all the searchable resources at Front and beyond and become a solid contributor to the organization
  • Improve our existing algorithms models to increase search accuracy
  • Partner closely with researchers, designers, product managers and other engineers

Requirements

  • Product-minded: committed to building the best user experience
  • First experience building highly available, large-scale distributed search systems at a large-scale internet service (example: Elasticsearch)
  • Knowledgeable about modern web technologies and an appetite to learn new ones, e.g. Node.js ES6, React, Redux, TypeScript
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
  • Understand the trade-offs between different engineering solutions when solving a problem, value pragmatism over idealism

Nice to have

  • Rigor in A/B testing, test coverage, and other software development best practices
  • Experience working with complex data models at scale

What we offer

  • Competitive salary
  • Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
  • Fully covered private health insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous paid time off
  • Flexibility to work from home Mondays and Fridays (unless posted as a full-remote role)
  • Mental health support with Workplace Options
  • Family planning support with Maven
  • 75 Euro per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
  • Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!

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