Java Developer (Remote Permanent Opportunity)

THIS IS A 100% REMOTE ROLE. WE ARE OPEN TO MID LEVEL TO ARCHITECT LEVEL CANDIDATES
About NTENT
We are a unique group of brilliant minds intent on discovering, learning and building. 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 looking for a mid to architect level Java Developer who will have the ability to deliver world-class search engine technologies. You'll 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.
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:
  • Bachelors of equivalent years of experience
  • 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
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