Senior Java Engineer

NTENT

  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    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. 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.

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    Websitehttps://ntent.com/

    Description

    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.

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