Company: AlphaSense https://www.alpha-sense.com/ Position: Search Engineer
AlphaSense is a one-stop financial search engine for financial research analysts all around the world. AlphaSense is looking for Search Engineers experienced with Lucene / Solr and search architectures in general. Positions are open in Helsinki ( http://www.visitfinland.com/helsinki/). Daily routine topics for our search team: 1. Sharding 2. Commit vs query performance 3. Performance benchmarking 4. Custom query syntax, lucene / solr grammars 5. Relevancy 6. Query optimization 7. Search system monitoring: cache, RAM, throughput etc 8. Automatic deployment 9. Internal tool development We have evolved the system through a series of Solr releases starting from 1.4 to 4.10. Requirements: 1. Core Java + web services 2. Understanding of distributed search engine architecture 3. Java concurrency 4. Understanding of performance issues and their solutions 5. Clean and beautiful code + design patterns Our search team members are active in the open source search scene, in particular we support and develop luke toolbox: https://github.com/dmitrykey/luke, participate in search / OS conferences (Lucene Revolution, ApacheCon, Berlin buzzwords), review books on Solr. Send your CV over and let's have a chat. -- Dmitry Kan Luke Toolbox: http://github.com/DmitryKey/luke Blog: http://dmitrykan.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dmitrykan SemanticAnalyzer: www.semanticanalyzer.info
