Senior Search Engineer — Java, Solr, GCP | Flexible

Grid Dynamics; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Sports benefit

Corporate events

Professional development

Well-equipped office

Job summary

Grid Dynamics in Warsaw, Poland, is seeking a Mid/Senior Search Engineer to design and optimize federated, personalized search experiences using modern Java services.

You'll work with Solr, Lucidworks Fusion, and cloud-based data pipelines, collaborating with product owners and engineers to deliver high-relevance results while improving latency and throughput in a dynamic retail domain.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Java (data-oriented backend) and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on expertise with enterprise search platforms: Apache Solr and Lucidworks Fusion (including Query Pipelines).
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency in building and consuming REST APIs.
• Working knowledge of Apache Spark for data processing.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute technical implementations using Apache Solr and Lucidworks Fusion functionality.
• Build and deploy robust integrations connecting search engines to a variety of data and content sources.
• Work side-by-side with digital product owners and software engineers to deliver personalized, high-relevance search results.
• Optimize and tune search queries, indices, and pipelines to continuously improve search accuracy and latency.
• Manage data-intensive backend components and RESTful APIs within a cloud ecosystem.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Solr

Lucidworks Fusion

GCP

REST APIs

Apache Spark

English proficiency

Job description

Grid Dynamics in Warsaw, Poland, is seeking a Mid/Senior Search Engineer to design and optimize federated, personalized search experiences using modern Java services.

You'll work with Solr, Lucidworks Fusion, and cloud-based data pipelines, collaborating with product owners and engineers to deliver high-relevance results while improving latency and throughput in a dynamic retail domain.