Sr. SOLR/Java Search Developer

Role summary

This is an exciting challenge for a search engineer wanting to work in a business where

Search is at the heart of the business. The successful candidate will join our Search

Engine development team working on a highly scalable consumer facing website

serving 10 million hits per day with large and rapidly growing data using SOLR search

technology.

Responsibilities

 Developing the latest SOLR-based search application using the best practices in

search and being hands on with Java and SOLR

 Create, maintain and optimize the SOLR indexes with large and variable data sets

of 100+ million documents

 Identify metadata and help improve user search relevance based on data collected

 Assist infrastructure team to manage and maintain the indexes.

Skills, knowledge and experience

Personal skills

 Excellent communication skills with experience working with business stakeholders

 Keen interest in staying updated on the latest technologies

 Able to demonstrate good attention to detail and a commitment to quality

 Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

 Excellent time management, scheduling, and organizational skills

 Ability to work well independently or in a team setting

Education & Experience

 Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or Masters in computer applications

 Has 5 + years of Java and J2EE development experience of which 3+ years are on

SOLR implementation

 Demonstrable experience of:

o Designing high availability systems

o Implementation of best practices while creating and maintaining indexes for

large and variable data sets

o Improving application performance by optimizing the search, ETL, data

ingestion, etc

o Working with large relational databases like MS SQL

 Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or Masters in computer applications

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