Sr. SOLR/Java Search Developer

Kaarya Consulting - HRO Services Division aims to be a strategic HR partner for client organistation to accelerate the HR processes of the client. Kaarya Team has built an effective service delivery model for ensuring customer focused HR processes in client organization

Role summary

This is an exciting challenge for a search engineer wanting to work in a business where

Search is at the heart of the business. The successful candidate will join our Search

Engine development team working on a highly scalable consumer facing website

serving 10 million hits per day with large and rapidly growing data using SOLR search

technology.

Responsibilities

 Developing the latest SOLR-based search application using the best practices in

search and being hands on with Java and SOLR

 Create, maintain and optimize the SOLR indexes with large and variable data sets

of 100+ million documents

 Identify metadata and help improve user search relevance based on data collected

 Assist infrastructure team to manage and maintain the indexes.

Skills, knowledge and experience

Personal skills

 Excellent communication skills with experience working with business stakeholders

 Keen interest in staying updated on the latest technologies

 Able to demonstrate good attention to detail and a commitment to quality

 Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

 Excellent time management, scheduling, and organizational skills

 Ability to work well independently or in a team setting

Education & Experience

 Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or Masters in computer applications

 Has 5 + years of Java and J2EE development experience of which 3+ years are on

SOLR implementation

 Demonstrable experience of:

o Designing high availability systems

o Implementation of best practices while creating and maintaining indexes for

large and variable data sets

o Improving application performance by optimizing the search, ETL, data

ingestion, etc

o Working with large relational databases like MS SQL

 Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or Masters in computer applications

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