Senior Lead Java Developer With Search Engine Expertise (Remote)

Project Description:

The primary goal of the project is the modernization, maintenance and development of an eCommerce platform for a big US-based retail company, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week.

Solutions are delivered by several Product Teams focused on different domains – Customer, Loyalty, Search and Browse, Data Integration, Cart.

Current overriding priorities are new brands onboarding, re-architecture, database migrations, migration of microservices to a unified cloud-native solution without any disruption to business.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for an experienced Java Developer with good understanding of search engines, who can help to perform migration of client platform:

– Quickly onboard to Customer’s processes

– Develop new features in Java and Kotlin for Spring Boot Microservices, as well as maintain existing ones

– Improve Personalized Search

– Modernize Data Ingestion for faster searching and indexing

– Collaborate with other teams and client to find the best solutions

Mandatory Skills Description:

English – B2 or higher;

Must have: Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Gradle;

Must have: Experience of work with Search Engines

Must have: Semantics Search / Vector Databases , Embeddings and LLMs

– At least 5 years of work experience including enterprise backend system design experience

– Strong knowledge of Java/Kotlin language

– Strong knowledge of Spring/SpringBoot

– Good understanding of how search engines works (experience with Lucene based engines preferred e.g. Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.)

– Good understanding of semantics search / vector databases , embeddings and LLMs

– Experience of development in production

– Familiarity with databases (SQL/PostgreSQL)

– Deep understanding of enterprise application architecture patterns

– Experience with distributed systems

– Familiar with microservice architecture patterns

– Familiar with Containers and Orchestration Systems (Kubernetes/PKS/OpenShift)

– Adoption of Agile and DevOps culture

– Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

– Experience of work in distributed teams, with US customers

– Experience in working with Kafka/Rabbit and caching (Hazelcast/Redis)

– Experience in a hybrid cloud environment or willing to learn new techniques and approaches

Languages:

English: B2 Upper Intermediate