Senior Search Engineer

• Superb written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and eager to make a positive impact.
• Able to build consensus among parties with conflicting needs.
• Deep understanding of Internet search engine and data mining technologies, and strong foundation in system design, software architecture, web technologies.
• Strong algorithm background, awareness of time and space complexity.
• Experience developing and scaling search applications in terms of query complexity, response time, content size.
• Knowledge of semantic web and AI concepts, data structures and algorithms, standards, and modern software implementations thereof, especially as applied in a distributed computing context.
• Deep understanding of internet protocols and technologies from both the server and client perspective.
• Solid understanding of OO software design principles.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex code in a production environment.
• Experience writing fault tolerant, high performance, scalable, dynamic, database-driven web applications.
• Working knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code.
• Prior architecture and demonstrated technical leadership skills are critical for this role.
• Expertise in Distributed/Scalable Systems and Algorithms is a huge plus along with refereed publications in related conferences.
• Past experience handling large amounts of data on distributed platforms.
• Experience with modern search techniques and technologies such as Lucene, Xapian, FAST, Nutch, and/or NLP tools).
• Familiarity with current generation of web application frameworks.
• Strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry.
• Experience developing using XP methodologies.