Senior Software Engineer - Search

Company: ZipRecruiter
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

*All employees are working remotely due to Covid-19 and we have committed to not require a return to the office until September 2021 at the earliest. *

Our Mission:

To actively connect people to their next great opportunity.

Who We Are:

ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web. ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.

Summary:

The Search team's mission at ZipRecruiter is to help job seekers maximize their potential and find their next big opportunity. We do this by using engineering and Machine Learning for:

• Understanding : Discerning the job seeker's intent and wants from their next job
• Expanding : Inferring from job seeker's profile, history and needs to cast a wider net of great potential opportunities
• Serving : Surfacing the most relevant opportunities and content
• Empowering : Presenting results in a manner that ensures minimal user effort
• Optimizing : Controlling the fine balance between relevance and monetization
  Responsibilities:
  
  • Work closely with the team to leverage concepts of Information Retrieval, Search Indexing, Query Processing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, relevance & ranking to deliver on the mission
  • Maintain and optimize search engines, identify ideas to evolve it, develop new features and benchmark possible solutions, improve search relevance, user experience and performance
  • Write, test, instrument, and deploy code to our Kubernetes environment
  • Help drive the innovation and evolution of ZipRecruiter
    Qualifications:
    
    • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
    • 4+ years of relevant experience in industry
    • Experience with search engine technology and inverted indexes or ElasticSearch/SolR/Lucene/others
    • Hands-on experience with Python
    • Operational understanding of C++/Java
    • Background in developing multi-tiered web applications using HTTP, JSON and REST APIs
    • Experience with embedding based search is highly desirable
    • Database development experience using both Relational and NoSQL databases
    • Knowledge in Data Streaming Frameworks (Kafka, Spark Streaming) is a plus
    • Knowledge of Kubernetes, microservice architectures, containerization, cloud based hosting (AWS) and stateless service architectures
    • Experience and desire to work in an Agile environment
      As part of our team you'll enjoy:
      
      • Competitive compensation
      • Exceptional benefits package
      • Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
      • Employer-matched 401(k) plan
        Privacy Notice Language:
        
        • "For information about ZipRecruiter's processing of California job applicant personal data, please see our Privacy Notice at: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/careers/california-job-applicant-privacy-notice "
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