Search Engineer

Essential functions

• Lead and execute the technical implementation of Solr, Lucidworks Fusion
• Design, build and maintain an enterprise-wide federated search & analytics infrastructure.
• Apply data mining, NLP, and machine learning (both supervised and unsupervised) to improve relevance and personalization algorithms.
• Build and deploy integrations to connect  Solr to a variety of data & content sources.
• Work side-by-side with digital product owners, software engineers, and UX designers to build federated and personalized search experiences that deliver highly relevant search results to users.
• Optimize and tune search queries and indices to improve search relevancy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
• 5+ years’ proven experience of enterprise development and a desire to work on a fast-paced development team with the experience of balancing multiple tracks of work concurrently.
• Understand architecture of search system and components and interfaces
• Strong Problem-solving skills and handling of on call responsibilities
• Ability to work with project teams located in multiple geographic locations
• Hands-on experience crafting and developing in the heart of a search solution (e.g. Solr, Lucene, Lucidworks or Elastic Search, etc.)
• Processing and bulk Indexing various types of documents like HTML, PDF, Office, Images, and in different languages
• Extensive Experience on Lucene & SOLR -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing SOLR search library, and REST APIs
• Knowledge of multiple language support and natural language recognition and processing
• Proven expertise in designing and configuring SOLR/ Lucidworks / Elastic schema and understanding in advanced schema fields.
• Operational understanding and experience deploying and handling search at scale
• Building data / text pipelines including custom components in either Lucidworks or Elastic
• Proven experience in SOLR query languages and writing complex queries with joins and aggregate that deals with large amounts of data and fine tuning the search results.
• Experience in Pattern Matching to extract data from Web Sites (Web Scraping), Text Documents, or html files using Python, Java / C#, and RegEx and Automation using Python or Java
• Should have solid understanding of search and recommendations (Query parsing, Spell Check and associated search topics)
• Knowledge of computational linguistics and/or NLP a plus
• Knowledge in setting up spiders to crawl web sites
• Knowledge working with Python and R libraries
• Knowledge in Web Scraping, extracting text from HTML, PDF, Word, etc.5.

We offer

• Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Benefits package - medical insurance, sports
• Corporate social events
• Professional development opportunities
• Well-equipped office

About us

Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization, and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.