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Search Architect
Job ID: GP708758
Salary: 120-160k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is a fast-growing company thriving through the economic downturn by providing a unique and much needed travel service. They are looking for an outstanding engineer with strong Java application development skills and a background in vertical search. The successful candidate will have a direct impact on the core search engine development.
Responsibilities:
· will own the architecture design and development of our search engine application, taking the current implementation and ensuring it provides high quality search result ranking and the ability to scale to massively
Qualifications:
· must have 5 years designing and hands on building of high volume Java applications for the web.
· must have hands on experience developing Lucene/SOLR based search applications
· must have proven experience rapidly re-architecting systems for ease of development and scale
· must have 3 years experience working in a rapidly growing start up environment
· must have proven ability to design either a database schema or ontology
· must have hands on experience using high performing SQL with very large data sets
· must be a native speaker of the UNIX command line, XML and regular expressions
· must embrace test driven development methodologies
· must be very familiar with common collaboration and code/build management tools such as SVN, Ant, Maven
· must be able to work effectively as an individual contributor with team of wide spread talent
· must be able to defend their architectural and design decisions with a very talented technical team
· must likes to work in a collaborative team environment
· must have the ability to shift gears quickly in a start-up environment
· must have previously worked in small start up vertical search environments or possibly a social networking site and have a desire to do so again
· should have large search company experience as well as start-up company experience
· should have experience scaling MySql applications to massive scale
· should have rich experience with web application technologies: Web services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate
Company Culture:
- Travel search startup in Palo Alto
- Offices close to Caltrain
- Newly acquired series B funding
- Profitable revenue model
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Principal Search Engineer
JobID: BE645587
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: Principal Search Engineer
Salary: $120,000 – 150,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE645587) The search group with our client is actively working on a number of interesting IR problems and is looking for people who can take a lead role in one or more of the following areas: information retrieval, text classification, machine learning, collaborative filtering and data mining. The ideal candidate will have a strong theoretical background in IR combined with successful hands-on experience developing and deploying large-scale, real-world systems.
Our client is looking for a dynamic Principal Search Architect to join their our top-notch development team and continually innovate and improve their e-commerce platform.
As a technology leader in e-commerce, they are constantly engaged in the most challenging and interesting development projects. They have an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals’ innovative ideas are rapidly adopted and rewarded. You’ll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks, not years.
Responsibilities:
- will work as part of a fast-paced web team and should be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
- will be behind the development and deployment of complex Web applications
Qualifications:
- must have recent experience with in-house, open source or commercial IR systems
- must have significant experience with high traffic, database-driven Web applications
- must have significant experience with large scale, high performance systems
- must have a strong background with Object-oriented design and implementation
- must have a strong background in relational database design
- must have experience with SQL, Oracle, JDBC, J2EE application servers, JSP and servlets
- must have a minimum 8 years experience in software development with at least 3 year in Java programming
- must have good communication skills
- must have a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science from a reputed US University
- must be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
- must have a strong background in statistics
- should have significant research experience in information retrieval, machine learning, or a related field
- should have demonstrated contribution to a large-scale web search or e-commerce application
- should have well-rounded experience with an emphasis on backend/server development
- must have a passion for building great software
Company Culture
- 10 years in business
- consecutive months and quarters of profitability
- more than 18 million users per month
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Sr. Software Engineer/Scientist
JobID: BE557898
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: Sr. Software Engineer/Scientist
Salary: $140,000 – 170,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE557898) Our client is a large international search/portal company. They have an exciting opportunity in their research and development lab, located just outside of San Francisco, CA. They are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer/Scientist to be a member of a small team of senior researchers and engineers working on advanced developments in the Web Search Engine Relevance area. If you are looking to make a significant contribution to the art of Search and leave your mark by challenging the current leaders in this field, this opportunity is for you!
Responsibilities:
- will be working with a small team of distinguished senior researchers and engineers on advanced developments in the Web Search Engine Relevance area
Qualifications:
- must be a top-notch specialist in Web Search Engine Relevance (content, ranking, ranking features, tree.net, RankNet, boosting, text mining, etc.)
- must have made a significant contribution to a major Web Search Engine in the past
- must have experience in active learning and machine learning
- must be a former member of a major Search Engine Relevance Team
- must have prior work experience at Google, Yahoo!, Alta Vista, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, or any other substantial Web Search Engine product/project.
- should like to things with your own hands and be actively involved
- should have worked in an advanced technical/research position in the past
- should have had a management stint as a Manager/Director (overseeing overall architecture and multiple projects) and would like to go back to being an individual contributor
Company Culture
- Located just outside of San Francisco, CA, two blocks away from the train station
- One of the leading Search Engine providers
- Site receives and answers almost 1 billion search queries a month
- Led by team of distinguished executives from leading US web properties
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
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