Senior Java Engineer

Location: Toronto, Ontario (Initially Remote) About Us: We are a unique group of brilliant minds intent on discovering, learning and building. We work in a vibrant atmosphere, with an emphasis on personal and professional development. This is an opportunity to tackle complex problems usually reserved for a handful of large companies in the search industry and build cutting edge Machine Learning and AI based Applications. NTENT provides a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), allowing industry partners to customize, localize and integrate Search technologies directly into their business-to-consumer offerings. NTENT utilizes advanced machine learning to decipher meaning and surface the most relevant answers. About the Opportunity: We are a dynamic company and our team is growing! We are looking for our next great hires to join our satellite team in Toronto, Ontario. We are looking for a talented Senior Java Engineer to deliver world-class search engine technologies. You will be working with a smart team of machine learning scientists and software developers on both full applications and tools that power NTENT’s powerful search platform. Seeking mid-level up to Architect level candidates. Duties and Responsibilities: Building the backend engine that runs our product. This includes extending our existing Machine Learning and Big Data pipelines and building entirely new capabilities, including: Big Data cluster, workflows and applications: data pipelines at scale, and real-time processing Machine learning and Data Scientist support: used in linguistics, ranking, classification, and other artificial intelligence applications Ingestion Pipeline: process data that comes from our web crawler which discovers and fetches content from the web and other sources Skills and Qualifications: BS or MS degree in Computer Science Solid experience with Java programming (we also use Spring, Spring Webflux, Reactor, Netty) Multi-threading experience is a must Experience in scalable architectures and high-throughput application design Experience working with microservices/REST APIs (HTTP, XML, JSON) Comfortable in Linux and Windows environments. Prefer some experience with Big Data Technologies (at least one of the following): Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hadoop, Hive) Spark Samza Kafka Aerospike Lucene NLP (Solr or ElasticSearch) The following experience is a plus: Continuous Integration and Deployment Tool usage: Git/Gitlab and IntelliJ Functional programming experience (Scala) Gradle The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, possess excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and be able to work efficiently and independently in an agile development environment. We offer a full comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision. Employees receive a generous time off (PTO) plan and 13 holidays per year. We also offer 401(k) benefits, long term disability benefits and life insurance. With a casual and flexible work environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr