Senior Search Engineer

About Knowde 

Knowde is a global software company digitally transforming the $5 trillion chemical industry by solving the root problem holding the industry back: organizing and digitizing product data. Knowde provides touchless product master data and a suite of purpose-built, integrated tools to accelerate digital transformation, helping Chemical Industry suppliers and distributors unleash the hidden power of their product information and get it into the hands of the people who drive value — sales, regulatory, supply chain and, of course, their customers. More than 8,000 of the world's largest suppliers and distributors use Knowde to accelerate their digital transformation and drive business growth.
We’ve raised over $100M from the world’s leading investors, including Sequoia Capital and Coatue, to realize our vision.

Come Join Us!

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Search Engineer to join our team. You will be a great communicator with an excellent English level.
We’re building out a two-sided marketplace for the chemical industry which is responsible for 1/4th of global GDP. To support our mission, we’ve embarked on a project to allow our customers to easily find chemical compounds, formulations and documents they may be interested in. This is specifically tailored to the industry we operate in, and our customers love it. 

This project comes with serious engineering challenges - efficiently ingesting data from a number of different data sources and keeping overall search performance and accuracy in check. We have a dedicated team whose sole purpose is to maintain a complex chemical taxonomy used everywhere in the project. We’re investing in automating as much of this process as is possible - to be able to process a magnitude more data than we do currently.

The successful Search Engineer will be working closely alongside extremely talented and driven engineers to build and support eCommerce / Marketplaces business.

What you’ll be doing:

• You will be responsible for architecting and implementing our specialized search engine (https://www.knowde.com/search)
• Make key architectural decisions regarding efficient data ingestion, data structures, API contracts and result scoring
• Maintain existing search features and implement new features
• Generate and track key UX metrics
• Work on service resiliency and search performance
  
  

What you should have:

• You should have a track record of shipping working software and a product mindset
• You should be well-versed in Java (several years of experience)
• You have either implemented a search engine in the past or have a keen interest in expanding your knowledge in this area
• You’ve worked with FTS engines, such as ElasticSearch
• You’ve built cloud-based systems on AWS or another cloud provider
  
  

Nice to haves:

• A degree in Computer Science or related discipline would be an asset
• You understand how distributed systems can break, and you understand the different tradeoffs when building them
  
  

Stack / Skills / Tools:

• Java
• Spring
• Redis / PostgreSQL
• ElasticSearch
• Docker

Our Perks & Benefits

• Location: Rzeszów, Łódź, Białystok, or remotely from Poland
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with a strong team of engineers
• Real and visible influence on the company growth, direction and future
  
  

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Knowde upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.