Java / Search Engineer

Farmington Hills, MI

This role is for Farmington Hills, MI

We are looking for an engineer that specializes in JAVA development and has

proven experience with enterprise search platforms (such as Solr, Lucene, or

Elastic Map Reduce).

* Degree or coursework specializing in Natural Language

Processing or Information Retrieval

* Experience with statistical analysis tools (like R)

* Experience with large-scale machine learning system such as

Apache's Mahout or other large data analytical systems.

This company is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and

research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets

worldwide. The company's products and services are designed to foster

academic excellence and professional development, increase student

engagement, improve learning outcomes and deliver authoritative information

to people whenever and wherever they need it.

Required

* Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field, or

equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience

* Minimum 7 years software development experience including 4

years of combined Java and/or JavaScript programming experience

* Proven experience with enterprise search platforms (such as

Solr and Lucene).

* Strong grasp of data structures and algorithm fundamentals.

* Knowledge of and desire to work in an Agile development

environment.

* Strong familiarity with object-oriented systems and enterprise

design patterns

* Experience with development of service oriented applications

* Familiarity with wide portfolio of software development

applications, environments and languages

* Strong understanding of HTTP/REST/API architecture

* Experience using source code control systems, such as Git,

Subversion, or CVS

* Knowledge of XML parsing, and DOM traversal.

Thanks,

Colin

Colin Reposa

creposa@syrinx.com