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Back-End Software Engineer | Search

Created on 12-08-2016
Location Palo Alto

Description

About Houzz
Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of more than 40 million unique monthly users who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next home project, connect with over 2.3 million home design and remodeling professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.
About the Role
As a Search Back-End Software Engineer, you will be in charge of search quality for Houzz users. Houzz hosts a massive collection of high-quality home design photos, as well as information on products, designers and home professionals around the world, and editorial stories and community discussions addressing a wide range of interests. Having a rich and robust search capability is crucial for providing our users with a great search experience so they can find what they like. Projects include scaling the index and improving the next-generation index pipeline.
What You'll Do
  • Lead engineering efforts to improve our search infrastructure (performance, reliability)
  • Design and implement Solr-based infrastructure that powers applications other than search
  • Work with data scientists to improve overall search quality
  • Troubleshoot search-related operational issues
  • Work with teammates to create appropriate metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality and performance
  • Develop tools to better support, manage and provision our search clusters
  • At a Minimum, We’d Like You to Have
  • Rich experience with Lucene/Solr, both for development and operations; experience with ElasticSearch a plus
  • Proficiency in web application programming (OOP, Java/C++, LAMP)
  • Good understanding of algorithms and web services
  • B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science or equivalent
  • Ideally, You’ll Also Have
  • Experience developing real-world web applications; consumer Internet experience
  • 3+ years experience
  • Benefit

    TGIF lunches

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    Cake and birthday celebrations every Fridays!

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    Access to our flexible benefits program including childcare vouchers, Cycle to Work (bicycle parking and showers available onsite), dental insurance, health screenings and an annual season ticket subsidy and loan program.

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    Gym membership discounts (London)

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