Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Roberts Recruiting•Boston, MA

About The Position

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join our core search engine team. You'll be involved with all aspects of our distributed back-end systems including: ingesting data from various web sources (APIs, web crawls, etc), scaling our data processing pipeline, data processing queues, data indexing with Elasticsearch and data querying using information retrieval and analytics techniques. You know what it takes to build, administer and grow distributed software systems and can hit the ground running.

Requirements

Deep understanding of Core Java and how to performance tune JVM based apps (required)
AWS or similar IaaS cloud services
Lucene, Elasticsearch or Solr (prior experience with Elasticsearch a huge plus)
NoSQL DB engines (MongoDB a plus)
Messaging systems (RabbitMQ a plus)
Scaling distributed data systems
Optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance
Clear articulation to your team of your design choices
Comfortable with doing frequent internal pull request reviews

Nice To Haves

Scrum master experience a big plus
Mentoring experience a big plus
Strong interest in scaling distributed data systems such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra or others
Strong interest in open-source search engines such as Lucene and Elasticsearch
Leverage many languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, JavaScript or Python and frameworks such as Akka or Node.js
Leverage OSS software but also contribute back to it