Dodge Construction Network (Dodge) is looking for a seasoned, hands-on .NET developer with robust systems design and architecture experience to join our search engineering team. This role will work on the backend services and search APIs powering our critical applications, and will be trained on our search platform technologies.

This is a full-time position and reports directly to the VP, Data Architecture.

Preferred Location

Qualified candidates should be based in or near Kochi and able to work from our Kochi office as part of a hybrid schedule.

Essential Functions

Backend & API Engineering (.NET)

Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable RESTful APIs using .NET Core (C#) to support both internal systems and client-facing applications
Architect and implement authentication, authorization, and entitlements/access control systems to protect API endpoints and user data
Contribute to system design discussions, producing scalable, fault-tolerant architectures for distributed systems and applying event-driven patterns where appropriate




Collaborate with data engineering teams to design and optimize data ingestion and enrichment pipelines that feed search indexes
Incorporate AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, etc.) into daily workflows; review and validate AI-generated code before merging
Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and performance testing; participate in code reviews and uphold engineering standards

Search Platform Engineering

Contribute to our scalable search infrastructure built on Apache Solr and/or OpenSearch, including schema design, indexing pipelines, and query parsing
Apply or develop knowledge of search relevance concepts: tokenization, stemming, custom analyzers, boosting rules, and query-time vs. index-time tuning
Support search cluster operations, replication, and high-availability in production environments
Help diagnose and resolve search performance issues, including slow queries, indexing bottlenecks, and rel

📌 Search Software Engineer (Kochi)
🏢 Dodge Construction Network
📍 Kochi