Senior Java Software Engineer

Mandatory Skills : Java, Microservices, Elasticsearch , Solr

Essential Function and Responsibilities :

Design and architect search & recommendations platform, work on Next Generation architecture in addition to supporting and maintaining current platforms including legacy systems

Focus on improving search relevance, ranking and recommendations, personalization architecture

Microservices development to support the many services within search and science teams.

Provide technical leadership within the team and build partnerships with cross-discipline team members

Write code and develop search & recommendation services, data ingestion indexing pipelines

Work closely with other architects, engineers, data analysts, data scientists and project managers in assessing project requirements, design, develop and support data ingestions, API services and Elasticsearch stack solution

Work with Data Scientists in integrating ML Ranking models, NLP and applying query understanding techniques in search

Proven work on large-scale search, discovery, typeahead (auto-suggest), personalization, and recommendation implementation and its related infrastructure

Mentor junior team members, define architecture, code review, hands-on development and deliver the work in sprint cycle

Participate in design discussions and other team members for the design of new systems and re-engineering of components of existing systems

Take holistic approach to building solutions by thinking big picture and overall solution

Perform a / b tests, work with Data Analysts and Data Scientists in evaluating the impact of search / recommendation improvements

Knowledge of hot / warm / cold data, ILM (Index LifeCycle policies), Data streams, Transforms, CCR and other infrastructure aspect of services and Elasticsearch