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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