Software Engineer III

Company: Wayfair LLC
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: January 18, 2018

Job Description:

Software Engineer III (Storefront Engineering/Search Technologies)

Duties: lead, mentor, and teach engineers in building search technology

applications & infrastructure, working with several large and complex

Apache Solr systems and Microsoft SQL Server databases. Responsible for

building highly scalable and robust systems for e-commerce search;

producing robust, elegant and scalable software that performs well under

high load; integrating internally developed applications and service-

based protocols, applying experience with across multiple architectures;

and collaborating with business colleagues to bridge technology

requirements with business needs.

Requirements: Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,

Engineering or related field (willing to accept foreign education

equivalent) plus two (2) years of experience performing Java, Python and

SQL design or, alternatively, a Bachelor's degree and five years of

experience as noted above. One year of experience must include:

utilizing version control systems such as GIT and SVN, and Jenkins and

Puppet to deploy application code into server environments; interfacing

with business product leaders and engineers to gather requirements, and

translating requirements into system design; building custom Apache Solr

plugins using Apache Solr/Lucene API in Java, administrating Apache Solr

servers, and tuning server configuration for performance and relevancy

improvement ; using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to

extract information from unstructured text; utilizing Java and Python

for developing web-services, building image searching capabilities using

advanced data structures, and building tools to process large data sets

using Hive; performing relational database design and developing data

processing tools using Java, Python, SQL queries and stored procedures;

using machine learning techniques including SVM, MaxEnt, Neural

Networks, Deep Learning, and clustering algorithms to improve search

capabilities; and improving search functionality using knowledge of

search theory, search methods, query understanding, named entity

recognition, word-sense disambiguation, language modeling, parsing,

syntax trees and dependency graphs.

Submit resume to Wayfair LLC, S. Lisanti, 100 Huntington Avenue, 4

Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 or via

https://jobs.wayfaircareers.com/jobs/o5WK6fwB

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