Senior Search Engineer - Relevance, Scale & AI Discovery

Grid Dynamics; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Budget for conferences and courses

Well-equipped office

Corporate social events

Job summary

A technology consulting firm is seeking a hands-on Search Engineer to design and optimize large-scale search platforms. The role requires expertise in Solr or Elasticsearch, with responsibilities ranging from developing Java services to implementing machine-learning-driven search features. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in back-end system development, as well as a strong understanding of search concepts and data pipeline construction. This position offers opportunities for growth and collaboration within a dedicated team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building back-end systems in Java with a focus on performance.
• 3+ years hands-on with Apache Solr or Elasticsearch.
• Proven track record delivering search features at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of Solr/Elasticsearch clusters.
• Develop high-throughput Java services exposing search functionality.
• Prototype and productionize features like autocomplete and spell-checking.

Skills

Java

Apache Solr

Elasticsearch

Python

Docker/Kubernetes

Tools

Spring Boot

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

A technology consulting firm is seeking a hands-on Search Engineer to design and optimize large-scale search platforms. The role requires expertise in Solr or Elasticsearch, with responsibilities ranging from developing Java services to implementing machine-learning-driven search features. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in back-end system development, as well as a strong understanding of search concepts and data pipeline construction. This position offers opportunities for growth and collaboration within a dedicated team.