Sonian - Search Engineer - Boston, MA or REMOTE

On our team, you’ll get to:

- Help design and develop this platform and its component services, using technologies like Clojure, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Pedestal, and Datomic

- Spearhead new indexing designs and approaches for greater speed and efficiency of searches, lower cost, and greater ability to meet customer demand for new archive capabilities

- Contribute features and bug fixes to Elasticsearch and plugins, or to other software systems

- Work closely with developers who build the applications that turn our platform into powerful tools for users and partners, and with the support organization that keeps it humming

- Be on a team that values code quality, good communication tools, a carefully polished remote pairing experience, sound testing practices and diverse opportunities for mentoring

We ask only that you:

- Be well-versed in Elasticsearch, Lucene, and Java

- Be excited about functional programming, especially with Clojure

- Communicate well, in your code, documentation, and in chats and conversations with others

- Want to build well-designed, scalable, decoupled, performant services with APIs that are a pleasure to use

You might also:

- Have some experience already with Clojure, Datomic, Chef, or AWS

- Be versed in text analytics, machine learning, or other studies around content enrichment

To apply please send a cover letter and your resume to jobs@sonian.net. Use subject line "Software Engineer – Search".

We could make them all read "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. :)

That's the subject of the whole novel, and it's a really great one.

but sadly, kurt's answer in the book wasn't very satisfying. you could join the 'reeks and wrecks' and be miserable for the rest of your life, or revolt and be executed.