Software Engineer – Java, Search and Big Data

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and enhance software applications and systems.
• Build scalable backend applications using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain RESTful web services.
• Design and optimize full-text search, indexing, and retrieval capabilities.
• Contribute to large-scale search architecture and system design.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable code.
• Participate in unit, system, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Lead or contribute to the development of new features across multiple system modules.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and other cross-functional teams.
• Evaluate emerging search, Big Data, and software-development technologies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least four years of professional software-development experience.
• Expert-level Java programming and object-oriented design experience.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot or the Spring Framework.
• Experience using Gradle.
• Hands-on experience developing RESTful web services.
• Experience with Scala and Python.
• Production experience with one or more full-text search and indexing technologies, including:
  • Apache Lucene
  • Apache Solr
  • Elasticsearch
  • OpenSearch
  • Vespa
  • A comparable enterprise search platform
• Experience designing or supporting large-scale search systems.
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Hadoop or Apache Spark.
• Strong Linux or Unix experience.
• Understanding of database-design principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative development environment.

Highly Desired Qualifications

• Experience with graph-search technologies and vector databases.
• Experience developing applications using large language models.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor or Claude.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as New Relic.
• NoSQL experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
• Relational database experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with performance optimization, load testing, or stress testing.

Eligibility Requirements

• Sponsorship is not available.
• Must be able to work onsite in Columbus three days per week.
• Candidates outside the area must be willing to relocate.