Middle Search Engineer

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Middle Search Engineer

We are looking for a Middle Search Engineer to join our Team!

What is Sease?

We are Sease, a tech company headquartered in London – but distributed all around the world!
Our passion is to bring the best Information Retrieval research principles, ideas and implementations from academia into real world products.

We work to deliver state of the art Information Retrieval systems (Search Engines, Recommender Engines, Q&A systems) able to satisfy our customer’s information needs in an easy and effective way.
We are Apache Lucene/Solr and Elasticsearch experts, and we are actively involved in research, a key value in Sease.

// Middle Search engineer

About the role

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer with a solid foundation in search technologies to take on a middle-level position in our team. This role is perfect for professionals looking to further develop their expertise while contributing to impactful and challenging projects for our clients.

You are

• Experienced in search technologies such as Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Vespa, or OpenSearch.

• Have a strong work ethic  

• You enjoy writing clean, testable code

• You thrive in solving non-trivial problems 

• Own your projects with a track record of delivering on time.

• A team player with effective communication (verbal and written) skills in English.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of software engineering experience.

• Strong knowledge of Java and Python.

• Hands-on experience with search technologies.

• Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools like Jira.

• Interest or experience in machine learning and AI is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build new search features for existing systems/products.

• Planning, architecting, designing, developing, testing, deploying and supporting search systems.

• Maintain existing code by fixing defects and executing technical debt items

• Working with your team under agreed-upon deadlines to design, build, and deliver applications.

• Be part of Open Source communities and contribute back ideas and code

Benefits

Working with us you will also receive:

• Remote work