Java Developer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Java Developer for a Contract assignment with one of our premier SaaS clients in San Jose, CA. This is a hybrid role.

Search is a critical part of the clients' Cloud offering. Creative professionals and novice users alike need quick access to their digital assets, libraries, the variety of creative content, and documents they work with every day, from brushes to colors, images, videos and beyond. They need to find and discover what they've created, the things that have been shared with them, and even search marketplace such as Adobe Stock or community such as Behance.

We are building new search platform that powers suits of product lines such as Creative Cloud product, Marketing Cloud, and Document Cloud by enabling the world's best creative tools, leading cloud services for managing creative assets, and the leading marketplace such as Adobe Stock. Search platform will have to cater to millions of users and billions of entities. Become part of this growing team and have a phenomenal impact by providing search, browse, machine learning and recommendation across the creative suites of products.

We're looking for a top notch search engineering leadership in the area of information retrieval, search indexing, Elasticsearch, Lucene, algorithms, relevance & ranking, data mining, machine learning, data analysis & metrics, query processing, multi-lingual search, and search UX. This is an opportunity to make a huge impact in a fast-paced, startup-like environment in great company.

Responsibilities :

• Work on Search algorithm, web services, search indexing, data mining, big data, Hadoop, deep learning, recommendations, and performance by developing a Search platform that would power Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Marketing Cloud.
• Apply data mining and machine learning to improve the ranking and recommendations as part of search work-flow.
• Build platform to index billions of images, documents, and other assets in real-time.
• Maintain and optimize search engine, identify new ideas to evolve it, develop new features and benchmark possible solutions, in terms of search relevance, recommendations but also user experience, performance and feasibility.
• Build these Search products using technologies such as Elastic Search, REST web services, SQL/Kafka, Machine Learning, and more.
  
  

Required Skills:

• Java
• Software design
• Good English oral and written communication skills
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in industry
• Experience in engineering SaaS-based software, ideally B2B platforms
• Experience with search engine technology, image search and inverted indexes
• Experience with Elastic Search/SolR and AWS.
• Hands on experience with Java, Python, and PHP.
• Hands on experience in Big data processing, Hadoop and Spark.
• Hands on experience in building indexing pipeline.
• Experience in Web services and REST.
• Experience in RDBMS & NOSQL database.
• Experience with embedding based search is highly desirable
  
  

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com .

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