Java Search Engineer/Developer at Talkwalker
Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2163
About the Job
Our different IT teams take care of various aspects around the analysis of the large volume of data that we constantly process - to provide our customers with the best solution to fulfill their needs. We crawl, process, analyze, enrich and search public data (speech, video, and text) with the help of modern Machine Learning technology, store the results in a manner structured for efficient use by our applications, and visualize it in the Talkwalker solution which our clients use to answer their questions.
Talkwalker is an online and social data analytics software company specialized in listening, analytics and reporting that empowers over 2,000 brands analyzing online conversations on social networks in 187 languages. The company is extremely international with their headquarters based in the city center of Luxembourg and has additional offices in New York City, San Francisco, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Paris.
Key responsibilities:
- Build, develop and refine our core search technologies
- Participate in continuous R&D work for our search and database technologies
- Constantly work on diverse and challenging new functionalities (language-dependent search, statistics, ranking, categorization, faceted search, live updates of metadata, complex query analyzer, query plan optimization, caching, ...)
- Write production code for elastic search running on more than 800 servers and processing petabytes of data each day. We currently index 350 million unique new posts per day. Our search archive has over 1 PB of data and we add each day over 1 TB of new data.
- Be able to influence business and product delivery in a flexible company structure
- Work together with Data, Machine learning, and Talkwalker team
Qualifications:
- You have fun and experience in programming complex software technologies
- You have strong Java development skills
- You create stable, reliable and maintainable code
- You have a good algorithm and data structure knowledge
- You are creative, self-motivated, try things out on your own and simply get things done
What we offer:
- The outstanding development team and great company atmosphere where you can personally grow
- Monthly developer talks
- Yearly paid attendance to a conference of your choice related to your work. (e.g. Elasticon in San Francisco)
- Competitive salary package, flexible hours
- Additional benefits: free drinks, meal vouchers, weekly company lunches/drinks, monthly events (laser game, ice skating, ...)
- VISA sponsorship for successful candidates if required
- Optional health care
About us:
We have been recognized by the Forrester Wave Social Listening Report as a Strong Performer. For us, it validates everything that we are striving for – happy customers, super-powerful products, groundbreaking AI technology, and an abundance of clean and accurate social data.
Our colleagues are coming from 35+ different countries around the world and we have a total headcount of over 250 employees. Being a rapidly-growing organization, our goal is to be 500+ employees by the end of 2020.
