Senior Software Engineer - Big Data - Ranking & Personalization

Company: indeed
Location: Austin
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Your Job As a Senior Software Engineer - Big Data on the Ranking & Personalization group, you will have ownership of a critical part of Indeed's marketplace by ensuring high quality and relevant jobseeker contacts across our platform. You will design and implement efficient algorithms, big data solutions, and microservices for ensuring relevance of matches, ranking results, filtering spam, and personalizing results. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining pipelines that create search indexes out of data from large databases. Indeed's job search engine serves billions of search queries every month connecting tens of millions of jobseekers to relevant job opportunities. As part of a collaborative team from engineering, data science, and product management, you will work on building innovative technical solutions to drive business outcomes. Data drives your decision making, and you influence others to do the same. We constantly dig into the data available at Indeed to analyze, inform and develop solutions to the right problems. If looking at data, slicing and dicing it in multiple ways and coming up with interesting insights is something you thrive upon, you will fit right in. RJP team is a primarily backend team. We use various technologies for different components including Java, Scala, Spark, Presto, Hadoop, Hive, Spring boot, Docker, GraphQL, MongoDB, React, etc. The Team The group you will be part of is called Ranking & Personalization. This group is responsible for ranking all jobs and personalizing results across search and non-search based surfaces. Indeed helps millions of jobseekers and employers worldwide connect each month, and the team works across Indeed to ensure job seekers and employers are connected to relevant and qualified jobs. The base salary range below represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Long Term Incentives, an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Who You Are If you are an engineer who's passionate about building innovative products that scale to tens of millions of page views a day, Indeed is looking for you. Indeed offers smart developers like you a complex development ecosystem with short release cycles. Every week sees the new release of multiple products that meet the growing needs of millions of job seekers worldwide. Requirements BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a closely related computer technical field with 5+ years experience programming with at least one of the following languages: Java, C++, C#, Python, Go, or Perl; OR MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a closely related computer technical field 3+ years experience programming with at least one of the following languages: Java, C++, C#, Python, Go, or Perl. Minimum 3 years of experience building applications using at least one of the following: web application technologies including: HTML, CSS, or Javascript; OR Databases, for example: MySQL, Mongo, or a similar program; OR a collection of systems connected and communicating via a network connection Minimum 2 years of experience with Big Data development with technologies like Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Hive, and Presto Minimum 1 years of experience working with AWS cloud technologies like S3, EC2, Lambda, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, etc. Minimum 1 year of experience mentoring more junior Engineers Significant experience with large scale, high-performance systems Preferred skills: Experience with Java, Spring boot, GraphQL, Docker Experience building high performance, sclable, high throughput applications with service-oriented architecture Indeed provides a variety of benefits that help us focus on our mission of helping people get jobs. View our bounty of perks: https://benefits.indeed.jobs/ Who we are We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people's lives all around the world, one job search at a time. Our Mission As the world's number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers. (*comScore Total Visits, March 2021) Salary Range Disclaimer The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Salary Range Transparency Austin 127,000 - 183,000 USD per year Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds. Indeed is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact Talent Attraction Help at 1-855-567-7767, or by email at TAhelp@indeed.com at least one week in advance of your interview. Our Policies and Benefits View Indeed's Applicant Privacy and Accessibility Policies - https://www.indeed.com/legal/indeed-jobs Learn about our global employee perks, programs and benefits - https://benefits.indeed.jobs/ Where legally permitted, Indeed requires all individuals attending or working out of Indeed offices or visiting Indeed clients to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. For positions that can only be performed at an Indeed office, candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and present acceptable proof of vaccination by the date of hire as a condition of employment. Indeed will consider requests for reasonable accommodation as required under applicable law. To qualify as being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 there should have been a two week period after receiving the second dose (or any government recommended booster shot) in a 2-dose COVID-19 vaccine series, or a two week period after receiving a single-dose (or any government recommended booster shot) in a single dose COVID-19 vaccine.

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