Senior Java Engineer
Position: Full time
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Initially Remote)
About Us:
We are a unique group of brilliant minds intent on discovering, learning and building. We work in a vibrant atmosphere, with an emphasis on personal and professional development. This is an opportunity to tackle complex problems usually reserved for a handful of large companies in the search industry and build cutting edge Machine Learning and AI based Applications.
NTENT provides a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), allowing industry partners to customize, localize and integrate Search technologies directly into their business-to-consumer offerings. NTENT utilizes advanced machine learning to decipher meaning and surface the most relevant answers.
About the Opportunity:
We are a dynamic company and our team is growing! We are looking for our next great hires to join our satellite team in Toronto, Ontario.
We are looking for a talented Senior Java Engineer to deliver world-class search engine technologies. You will be working with a smart team of machine learning scientists and software developers on both full applications and tools that power NTENT’s powerful search platform. Seeking mid-level up to Architect level candidates.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Building the backend engine that runs our product. This includes extending our existing Machine Learning and Big Data pipelines and building entirely new capabilities, including:
- Big Data cluster, workflows and applications: data pipelines at scale, and real-time processing
- Machine learning and Data Scientist support: used in linguistics, ranking, classification, and other artificial intelligence applications
- Ingestion Pipeline: process data that comes from our web crawler which discovers and fetches content from the web and other sources
Skills and Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science
- Solid experience with Java programming (we also use Spring, Spring Webflux, Reactor, Netty)
- Multi-threading experience is a must
- Experience in scalable architectures and high-throughput application design
- Experience working with microservices/REST APIs (HTTP, XML, JSON)
- Comfortable in Linux and Windows environments.
- Prefer some experience with Big Data Technologies (at least one of the following):
- Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hadoop, Hive)
- Spark
- Samza
- Kafka
- Aerospike
- Lucene NLP (Solr or ElasticSearch)
The following experience is a plus:
- Machine Learning
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Tool usage: Git/Gitlab and IntelliJ
- Functional programming experience (Scala)
- Gradle
- Avro
- Docker/Kubernetes
The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, possess excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and be able to work efficiently and independently in an agile development environment.
We offer a full comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision. Employees receive a generous time off (PTO) plan and 13 holidays per year. We also offer 401(k) benefits, long term disability benefits and life insurance. With a casual and flexible work environment.