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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, e.g. 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, Elasticsearc
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