Senior Java Backend Engineer – Solr/Elastic, AWS & Big Data

Tesla Laboratories. Inc.; Chantilly; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Tesla Laboratories, Inc. is seeking a full stack developer with a strong backend focus to join our middleware and backend services team in Chantilly, France. You will work on Solr/Elasticsearch-based search layers, schema updates, and Lucene queries within a big data environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend Java development, 3+ years with Solr/Elasticsearch, and hands-on experience with Hadoop, PySpark or Spark. Familiarity with AWS and CI/CD practices is a plus.

Qualifications

• Intermediate to Expert level experience in Solr or Elastic Search (minimum 3 years).
• Performing schema updates.
• Significant knowledge & experience in submitting Lucene queries.
• Significant knowledge & experience on how Solr/Elastic shards work.
• Significant experience tuning Solr/Elastic for performance and query optimization.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a big data environment using Hadoop, PySpark, Spark, and HBase (prefer at least two).
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on backend Java development experience (not Javascript or Springboot) implementing code that undergoes code reviews, unit testing, integration testing and deployed to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services as part of middleware and backend teams.
• Collaborate with data engineering on big data workflows and integration points.
• Implement and optimize Solr/Elastic search schemas and queries.
• Ensure code quality through reviews, tests, and production deployments.

Skills

Solr

Elasticsearch

Lucene queries

Solr shards

Solr tuning

Hadoop

PySpark

Spark

HBase

Java development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

GitHub

Job description

Tesla Laboratories, Inc. is seeking a full stack developer with a strong backend focus to join our middleware and backend services team in Chantilly, France. You will work on Solr/Elasticsearch-based search layers, schema updates, and Lucene queries within a big data environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend Java development, 3+ years with Solr/Elasticsearch, and hands-on experience with Hadoop, PySpark or Spark. Familiarity with AWS and CI/CD practices is a plus.