Sonian - Search Engineer - Boston, MA or REMOTE
On our team, you’ll get to:
- Help design and develop this platform and its component services, using technologies like Clojure, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Pedestal, and Datomic
- Spearhead new indexing designs and approaches for greater speed and efficiency of searches, lower cost, and greater ability to meet customer demand for new archive capabilities
- Contribute features and bug fixes to Elasticsearch and plugins, or to other software systems
- Work closely with developers who build the applications that turn our platform into powerful tools for users and partners, and with the support organization that keeps it humming
- Be on a team that values code quality, good communication tools, a carefully polished remote pairing experience, sound testing practices and diverse opportunities for mentoring
We ask only that you:
- Be well-versed in Elasticsearch, Lucene, and Java
- Be excited about functional programming, especially with Clojure
- Communicate well, in your code, documentation, and in chats and conversations with others
- Want to build well-designed, scalable, decoupled, performant services with APIs that are a pleasure to use
You might also:
- Have some experience already with Clojure, Datomic, Chef, or AWS
- Be versed in text analytics, machine learning, or other studies around content enrichment
To apply please send a cover letter and your resume to REDACTED_EMAIL. Use subject line "Software Engineer – Search".