Software Engineer

Order Type : Temp

Elasticsearch Consultant/Software Engineer Employee Goals - to provide opportunity for intellectual, personal, and professional growth through hard work, interesting challenges, and a supportive, dynamic, and fast-paced environment. Clients Goals - to provide the highest standards of quality with our creative, intelligent, and energetic team of Consultants and Associates. Job Summary: The Elasticsearch Consultant/Software Engineer we seek is an experienced customer facing consultant who possesses the professional skills necessary to be a valued, well-respected internal team member as well as a trusted customer project team member. In addition, this role requires hands-on software development experience necessary to contribute to the ongoing development of FindTuner. This is a challenging role requiring a confident applicant who thrives on problem solving, learning new systems and technologies, and making our clients successful. This individual needs to be comfortable, accountable, and successful working in a remote office role. Responsibilities include the design, development, and implementation of cloud and on premises web and search-based applications. Previous experience implementing enterprise and/or ecommerce search technologies with Elasticsearch is required. The selected candidate must be willing to perform all additional project tasks including knowledge transfer and go-live support to client resources when necessary. Some projects may require management of one or more resources to help complete the various phases of that project. Key Functions: Candidates should have a minimum three years’ experience with Elasticsearch, Java and JavaScript. Individuals are expected to design and implement on-premise and cloud-based systems using a majority of the following technologies: ? Solid experience with Elasticsearch best practices, query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning. ? Experienced in Elasticsearch query DSL, aggregations, and full-text search capabilities. ? Experience with improving search relevancy, ranking and recommendations. ? Experience with data ingestion techniques and tools for Elasticsearch indexing. ? Software engineering skills in system architecture & design, coding, OOP, and test-driven development. ? Java, JavaScript - jQuery ? Spring Framework. ? Maven. ? RESTful, JSON. ? Fundamental understanding of Kubernetes and Docker. ? Software version control systems such as Git. ? Comfortable working in Agile software development methodologies. ? Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow through. Personal qualities are equally important as specific experience, but in general candidates will have: ? Three years’ experience in a professional technical systems capacity. ? The ability to interact and communicate with non-technical business teams. ? The ability to focus on delivery within a defined project scope. ? The diplomatic skills to resolve the gap between customer expectations, project scope and solution capability. Qualifications: ? Bachelor’s degree desirable. ? US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green) Card required. ? Must be passionate about technology. ? Strong relationship management and teamwork skills. ? Ability to work independently and remotely. ? Desire to be a thought leader in the technology and business areas you’re assigned.