Search Developer
Papigen · India
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Jul 7, 2026
India
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused role centred on building and maintaining an enterprise search platform, primarily using Azure AI Search and Python. Day-to-day work spans creating and managing search indexes, developing integrations with relational and NoSQL databases, handling deployments, and resolving production incidents. Suited to an experienced developer with a background in search or information retrieval who is comfortable working across cloud infrastructure and REST-based integrations.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,150–5,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The 'Good to Have' section explicitly calls out Java, Azure OpenAI/RAG, and CI/CD/DevOps as optional — these are marked preferred accordingly.
PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, and MongoDB all appear under the required 'Technical Skills' block with no softening language, so all three are treated as hard gates even though it is unusual to require all three simultaneously; a hiring manager may wish to confirm whether any of these are truly optional.
Generative AI concepts are listed under required Technical Skills but name no specific tool or platform, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
No compensation, employment type, or work location (beyond the caller-declared fully-remote status) was stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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