Search Backend Engineer

🕒 May 4

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $130k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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PTFS

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1995

PTFS has been a leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider to Federal, Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence agencies since 1995. Our core products include Knowvation™ Content Services Platform (CSP) and Bibliovation™. To help organizations focus on their core mission, we also offer highly technical teams that streamline the process to stand up and maintain custom solutions that best meet your needs.

📋 Description

• Design, develop and maintain search platforms using SolrCloud • Build and optimize indexing pipelines for high-volume unstructured data • Develop custom query logic, ranking strategies, and relevance tuning • Implement and maintain search APIs and services using Java and Sprin Boot • Design and evolve schemas, analyzers, and tokenization strategies • Troubleshoot search quality and performance issues in production environments • Work with distributed search clusters and supporting components • Contribute to monitoring, observability, and reliability of search systems

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Java, including Spring and Spring Boot, in the USA • 7+ years of experience using Solr/SolrCloud (Preferred) or Elasticsearch, in the USA • Strong understanding of Apache Lucene fundamentals • Java development experience applied to search and processing structured and unstructured data • Experience building search APIs or services (Solr/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch clients) • Experience with XML parsing, binding and transformation workflows. • Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and JVM-based applications • Monitoring experience with tools like Prometheus and Grafana • Experience with testing practices (TDD/BDD, performance testing such as JMeter) • Experience with DevOps tooling (Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Ansible) • Strong Linux experience in production environments • Must be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance • Must be a U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder, or Employment Authorization Document (EAD) holder • No visa sponsorship or C2C arrangements available • Must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years

🏖️ Benefits

• 15 days paid time off per year • 11 paid holidays per year • Medical, Dental & Vision • 401(k) Plan with matching • Tuition assistance • Disability insurance • Referral Bonuses