Software Engineer II – Practitioners Search (x/f/m)

What we do Join a team of passionate and hard working entrepreneurs to transform healthcare! Working in the tech team at Meridian Softworks involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with engineering, product, design, and business teams. What you’ll do We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Practitioners Search in the Patient team. Our team is dedicated to helping millions of patients discover and book the right healthcare practitioner, by continuously optimizing the search and matching experience. Every day, our search engine handles a massive volume of queries, from broad specialty searches to highly specific medical needs, and our mission is to make sure every patient finds the right care, fast. By joining our team, you’ll solve exciting technical challenges at scale. With millions of searches processed daily across a constantly evolving catalog of practitioners, we continuously engineer robust solutions for search relevance, ranking quality, query performance, personalization, and system reliability. Your mission: Shaping the future of healthcare access: Work alongside product managers and engineers to build search and discovery features that directly impact millions of patients looking for care. Driving technical excellence in search: Take ownership of architectural decisions on our Search-based stack, and help define our technical roadmap to deliver fast, relevant, and personalized results at scale. Improving relevance & ranking: Iterate on ranking strategies, indexing pipelines, and query understanding to continuously raise the quality of results and the patient conversion rate. Learning and growing with the team: Share your expertise through code reviews, technical discussions, and mentoring, while helping us refine our development practices from design to deployment. Owning meaningful outcomes: Lead the delivery of high-impact features that measurably improve how patients find and book the right practitioner. Who you are If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply! You have at least 3+ years of software engineering experience, including experience with Java (bonus points for hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or other search/indexing technologies, and/or React/TypeScript). You are proactive, curious, collaborative and eager to learn. You have a good understanding of web technologies, distributed systems, and the software development life cycle. You are interested in search relevance, ranking, performance optimization, and/or personalization — and curious to learn more. You have a “user first” mindset and want to build a product focused on bringing value to its users, through secure, well-tested and pragmatic code. You are very focused on code quality and have a rigorous testing culture. You are eager to share your knowledge and help the team grow by pair programming and mentoring. What we offer Free Health Insurance for you & your family Up to 14 days of RTT Parental care program (1 month off in addition to the legal parental leave and 0,5 days off per child when the school starts) Wellbeing program (free mental health and coaching offer with our partner moka.care) A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode Flexibility days allowing to work in EU countries and the UK 10 days per year Lunch voucher with Swile card Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class Bicycle subsidy The interview process Recruiter Interview Codingame Feature Building Interview System Design Interview Behavioral Interview Job details Permanent Position Full time Location: Levallois Working Mode: Hybrid (3 days office based) Start Date: As soon as possible If you would like to find out more about tech life at Meridian Softworks, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! At Meridian Softworks, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone — regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Meridian Softworks is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t just accept diversity at Meridian Softworks, we respect and celebrate it! The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Meridian Softworks, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process smoother for you!