Senior Java Engineer - Search Inference Platform

Gomyneed Private Limited; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer - Search Inference - Platform in Portugal. This on-site role requires deep Java expertise and experience with API design, concurrency, and AI-accelerated debugging. You will integrate various systems, shape the inference platform, review open source contributions, and participate in on-call rotations.

Strong collaboration across teams and a track record of delivering robust, scalable Java services are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production Java experience.
• Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of concurrency, parallelism, and classloaders.
• Proven track record using AI to accelerate development and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, including schema negotiation and streaming (SSE).
• Contribute to the inference plugin architecture: task settings, chunking strategies, rate limiting, provider configuration.
• Review open source contributions to ensure standards are met.
• Participate in on-call rotation for inference incidents.
• Write thorough tests: unit tests (ESTestCase), YAML REST integration tests, and rolling upgrades.

Skills

Java

API design

Concurrency

Code optimization

Tools

ESTestCase

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer - Search Inference - Platform in Portugal. This on-site role requires deep Java expertise and experience with API design, concurrency, and AI-accelerated debugging. You will integrate various systems, shape the inference platform, review open source contributions, and participate in on-call rotations.

Strong collaboration across teams and a track record of delivering robust, scalable Java services are essential for success in this role.