PTFS ยท 1 day ago
Solr Back End Engineer
Rockville, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expProgressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) is a leading enterprise Content Services Platform provider for Federal, Civilian and DoD agencies, and they are seeking a Solr Backend Engineer. The role involves designing, developing, and supporting custom code and open-source components for the SolrCloud search engine, utilizing various technologies including Java, Solr, and machine learning.
Software
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
The Solr Backend Engineer serves is responsible for the design, development, and support of custom code and open-source components that power the SolrCloud search engine
The candidate will work with state-of-the-art technologies including Solr/SolrCloud, Lucene, Zookeeper, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Linux, Groovy, Python, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, DevSecOps, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Nexus, Ansible, TDD, BDD, JMeter, and other open-source frameworks
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience as a backend engineer working with the Solr search engine on enterprise-scale information retrieval systems
Hands-on experience integrating custom Java applications with Solr
Strong background indexing high-volume content and metadata into Solr
Deep experience building and maintaining custom query parsers and request handlers using Lucene APIs
Solid experience developing REST services and Java-based search API layers with SolrJ
Expertise in query optimization, caching, and relevance tuning
Practical experience designing and maintaining schemas, including custom analyzers and tokenizers
Skilled in troubleshooting multi-tier systems on Linux, profiling Java applications, and tuning the JVM
Experience creating custom parsers for structured and unstructured content using core Java, regular expressions, and NLP
Strong XML skills, including JAXP parsing and XSLT/XPath for indexing workflows
Experience using templating engines and dynamic languages to decorate search results and extend Java APIs, such as Groovy, Scala, or Python
Monitoring experience with Prometheus and Grafana
DevOps experience with Git or GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, and Nexus
Experience with TDD or BDD, test automation, and performance testing
Experience working in Agile teams, including Scrum or Kanban
Strong written documentation skills
A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
US Citizen with a minimum of three years continuous residency in the USA
You must be authorized to legally work in the U.S., PTFS will not sponsor any visas at this time
Eligibility for a Public Trust required
Preferred
Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments and microservices
Microsoft Azure or AWS
Experience with machine learning, natural language processing, and vector search
Benefits
15 days PTO per year
11 paid holidays per year
Medical, Dental & Vision
401(k) Plan with matching
Tuition assistance
Disability insurance
Gym in the Rockville, MD office
15 days paid time off per year
11 paid holidays per year
Medical, Dental & Vision
401(k) Plan with matching
Tuition assistance
Life and Disability insurance
A Gym is provided at no additional cost to the employee in the Rockville, MD office
Company
PTFS
PTFS has been a leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider to Federal, Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence agencies since 1995.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
John Yokley
President & CEO
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