JOB TITLE: Java Developer 4
LOCATION: Hybrid in San Jose, CA
PAY RANGE: $85-95/hour
DURATION: 6 month contract
TOP 3 SKILLS:
- Java, Software design, good English oral and written communication skills
- Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in industry
- Experience in engineering SaaS-based software development
COMPANY:
Our client, a Fortune 500 Software Organization, is seeking a Java Developer 4 to join their team.
Search is a critical part of our client's Cloud offering. Creative professionals and novice users alike need quick access to their digital assets, libraries, and the variety of creative content they work with every day. They need to find and manage what they've created, the things that have been shared with them, and even search marketplaces or communities.
We are building a new search platform that powers suites of our product lines, catering to millions of users and billions of entities. Join us and have a phenomenal impact by providing search, browse, machine learning, and recommendations across the creative suites of products.
Search is at the very core of the service offered to our customers, covering 13 languages and reaching millions of users daily. The objective is to make search a world-class, leading-edge, differentiating product in terms of search effectiveness and experience.
How can you participate? We're looking for top-notch search engineering leadership in information retrieval, search indexing, Elasticsearch, Lucene, algorithms, relevance & ranking, data mining, machine learning, data analysis & metrics, query processing, multi-lingual search, and search UX. This is an opportunity to make a huge impact in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
Responsibilities:
- Work on search algorithms, web services, search indexing, data mining, big data, Hadoop, deep learning, recommendations, and performance by developing a search platform that powers Clouds such as Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Marketing Cloud.
- Apply data mining and machine learning to improve ranking and recommendations as part of the search workflow.
- Build a platform to index billions of images, documents, and other assets in real-time.
- Maintain and optimize the search engine, identify new ideas to evolve it, develop new features, and benchmark possible solutions in terms of search relevance, recommendations, user experience, performance, and feasibility.
- Build these search products using technologies such as Elastic Search, REST web services, SQL/Kafka, Machine Learning, and more.
Qualifications:
- Java, Software design, good English oral and written communication skills
- Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in industry
- Experience in engineering SaaS-based software development
- Experience with search engine technology, image search, and inverted indexes
- Experience with Elastic Search/SolR and AWS
- Hands-on experience with Java, Python, and PHP
- Hands-on experience in Big Data processing, Hadoop, and Spark
- Hands-on experience in building indexing pipelines
- Experience in web services and REST
- Experience in RDBMS & NoSQL databases
- Experience with embedding-based search is highly desirable
- BS or MS in Computer Science required