What are the responsibilities and job description for the SolrCloud Backend Engineer position at Progressive Technology Federal Systems?
SolrCloud Backend Engineer
(Remote)
Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) has been a leading enterprise Content Services Platform (eCSP) to Federal, Civilian and DoD agencies, has an opening for a SolrCloud Backend Engineer.
Duties: The SolrCloud 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 Java-based code includes springboot java services, parsers, query parsers, publisher, consistency check, APIs, monitoring utilities, and XSLT transforms. The candidate will work with state-of-the-art technologies including SolrCloud, Lucene, 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.
Skills qualifications (Required):
- 7 years of experience as a backend engineer working with the SolrCloud search engine on enterprise-scale information retrieval systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating custom Java applications with SolrCloud, along with practical experience using the Spring or Spring Boot framework.
- Strong background indexing high-volume content and metadata into SolrCloud.
- 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.
- Public Trust
Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
Benefits:
- 15 days paid time off per year
- 11 paid holidays per year
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Plan with matching
- Tuition assistance
- Disability insurance
- Referral Bonuses
Salary : $130,000 - $150,000