Opportunity for Senior/Lead Search Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Search Engineer

Engineering | Sausalito, CA

Want to work at a start-up where you can really make a difference?  

Glassdoor, the world's fastest growing career community and 2013 Webby Winner for "Best Employment Website", is looking for a search and information retrieval engineer to create a world class job and employer search platform.  This is your chance to share your work with a worldwide community of over 20M members and make your mark on the #1 employment app on Facebook – and we're just getting started.

Responsibilities

As Senior Search Software Engineer, you'll play a central role in the IR system that drives the Glassdoor website. You will work on areas such as document indexing, retrieval, and relevancy scoring. We're looking for a developer with a strong background in both theoretical and applied information retrieval.

As a fast-growing startup, we look for self-starters who thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment – which means wearing many hats, being able to change direction quickly, and showing an eagerness to learn new technologies as the need arises.  In this role you work with a small, collaborative team of engineers, QA, and product managers – so excellent interpersonal and communication skills are also a must.  But most importantly – we look for people that can prioritize, multi-task, and deliver – because it's a lot more fun to get things done.

Skills and Requirements

• Deep understanding of the mathematical underpinnings of information retrieval
• Experience working on a production level, high-volume IR system such as a search engine, including vertical search
• Experience working with open source search software (Lucene/Solr), ideally using Java
• Bonus points if you have experience with any of the following areas: Experimental design, A/B testing, statistical analysis; Machine Learning (ML); Natural Language Processing (NLP); Big Data (Map-Reduce, Hadoop, Pig); Web crawling; Internationalization

Why Glassdoor?

We believe that work is one of the most important parts of our lives, so we also we believe in a winning culture and great benefits:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Great culture & team spirit
• Take a break when you need it – unlimited PTO
• 100% company paid medical/dental/vision/life insurance (90% dependent)
• Fully stocked break rooms with unlimited drinks, snacks and daily bbq
• Pet-friendly office
• Onsite yoga and meditation room
• Paid volunteer days
• Mac or PC – you choose!
• Sunny Sausalito offices just a block from the water
• 2012 & 2013 Winner "Best Places to Work" in the North Bay
• Team outings (Ball games, hikes, paddle-boarding etc.)
• Relocation assistance provided!