Elasticsearch Software Engineer (Remote)

About 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.

Responsibilities

• Build new search features for existing systems/products.
• Plan, architect, design, develop, test, deploy and support search systems.
• Maintain existing code by fixing defects and executing technical debt items.
• Work 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.

Requirements

• Experienced in search technologies, in particular Elasticsearch/Apache Solr/etc.
• Strong work ethic.
• Enjoy writing clean, testable code.
• Thrive solving non-trivial problems.
• Own your projects with a track record of delivering on time.
• Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English; other languages are beneficial.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Java knowledge.
• Strong Python knowledge.
• Strong Elasticsearch knowledge.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology and Jira software.
• Familiarity with machine learning, AI, and other technologies.

Benefits

• The ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world.
• Flexible hours.
• Constant training and updating.
• Company pension.
• Sick pay.
• 28 days of paid holiday per annum.