Senior Search Engineer: Java & Elasticsearch Expert

Fantom Corporation; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fantom Corporation is seeking an experienced Search Software Engineer to develop and optimize enterprise search capabilities. You will focus on backend Java development, search platform engineering, and big data technologies to build scalable search and analytics solutions.

The ideal candidate has deep Elasticsearch or Apache Solr expertise, strong Java backend experience, and hands-on work with distributed data processing frameworks in large-scale environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on backend Java development experience.
• 3+ years developing with Elasticsearch or Apache Solr and schema updates.
• Strong Lucene syntax knowledge and search optimization skills.
• Experience designing distributed search architectures and shard design.
• 3+ years in big data environments; familiarity with Hadoop/Spark/PySpark/HBase.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, cloud-based search architectures.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise search solutions with Elasticsearch or Solr.
• Design and implement search schemas, indexing strategies, and optimizations.
• Develop Lucene-based queries to improve accuracy and performance.
• Configure and optimize clusters, including shard design and replication.
• Build backend Java services to support search and data processing.
• Write production-ready code with secure SDLC practices.
• Participate in code reviews, unit/integration testing, and deployments.
• Develop and maintain data processing pipelines using big data tech.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects on scalable analytics solutions.

Skills

Backend Java development

Elasticsearch/Solr expertise

Big data processing

Distributed computing

Troubleshooting & analysis

Communication skills

Agile development

CI/CD & DevOps practices

Cloud-based architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Elasticsearch

Apache Solr

Lucene

Docker

Kubernetes

Hadoop

Apache Spark

PySpark

HBase

Job description

Fantom Corporation is seeking an experienced Search Software Engineer to develop and optimize enterprise search capabilities. You will focus on backend Java development, search platform engineering, and big data technologies to build scalable search and analytics solutions.

The ideal candidate has deep Elasticsearch or Apache Solr expertise, strong Java backend experience, and hands-on work with distributed data processing frameworks in large-scale environments.