Job ID: GP708758

Job Title: Search Architect

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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