- As part of one of the fastest growing clouds at Salesforce, the Commerce Search teams have an exciting long-term roadmap dedicated to building scalable services that will power searching for products and content amongst the world's most trusted brands. Since search is the entry point for most commerce shoppers, we play a critical role in our customers’ success.
We are a collaborative team that strives for quality in product, software engineering best practices, and focus on impact. We are looking for a Senior/Lead/Principal Software Engineer to join a new team in helping build out and scale our Search platform.
Responsibilities/Duties
- Lead feature development throughout the software lifecycle: gather requirements, design, build, test, and deploy
- Help scale our search services which need to support low latency and high throughput
- Have experience with reliably delivering high-quality, distributed, testable, and scalable software
- Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
- Present your own designs to internal/external groups and review designs of others
- Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
- Service ownership operate the service, improve supportability, and help resolve customer issues
- Improve developer productivity through tooling and software engineering best practices
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
- Design and develop features on public clouds like AWS, GCP.
- Build tools for internal use to support software engineering best practices
**Skills and Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
- A good understanding of object-oriented programming and experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, eg. Java, C++.
- At least 5 years of object oriented programming experience
- Experience using Git / GitHub
- Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Java, JUnit, JSUnit, Selenium
- Previous experience with SaaS development
- Team player, get-it-done attitude and quick learner
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with Search technologies like Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr is a huge plus!
- Experience working on building Search Platforms/features is a huge plus!
- Experience building and deploying microservices on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform (Big plus)
- Experience with Istio service mesh, terraform, helm charts.
- Advantage – working knowledge of Spring Boot, Maven, Jetty, IntelliJ IDEA.
**Preferred Requirements**
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline
- Experience in REST API design.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a big plus
- Experience with IR (information retrieval)/ search expertise
- Experience with Search technologies like Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr, Swiftype, Google search appliance would be great
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies