Market America Worldwide – Shop.com, a global e-commerce and digital marketing company that specializes in one-to-one marketing, is seeking a top-notch Senior Search Engineer to join our team. Remote opportunity can be available to candidates based in states of CA, NC, FL, NY, or CT.

Position Summary

As a senior member of the Enterprise Search team, you will have an important role in helping millions of customers on our SHOP.COM and Market America Worldwide multi-region, multi-country and multi-language global eCommerce websites intelligently find what they want within different categories, merchant offers, products and taxonomy.

We have multi-billion documents in our search systems which process through multiple data ingest pipelines into our search and recommendation platforms driven by Elasticsearch. We support various types of data stored in our search systems for products, store offers, analytics, customer behavioral profiles, segments, logs and much more.

If you are a top-notch Senior Search Engineer who enjoys working on search and recommendation platforms, this is highly visible role that will provide you the opportunity to make a huge impact in our business and a difference to millions of customers worldwide.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Focus on improving search relevancy, ranking and recommendations
• Microservices development to support the many services provided by the search and science teams.
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive search, discovery, and recommendations.
• Work closely with architects, engineers, data analysts, data scientists and project managers in assessing project requirements, design, develop and support data ingestions, API services and Elasticsearch stack solution
• Work with Data Scientists in integrating Ranking models, NLP and applying query understanding techniques in search
• Proven work on large-scale search, discovery, typeahead (auto-suggest), personalization, and recommendation implementation and its related infrastructure
• Able to influence on priorities working with various partners including engineers, project management office and leadership
• Mentor junior team members, define architecture, code review, hands-on development and deliver the work in sprint cycle
• Perform a/b tests, work with Data Analysts and Data Scientists in evaluating the impact of search / recommendation improvements
• Work on moving away from legacy systems into next generation architecture
• Take complete ownership from requirements, solution design, development, production launch and post launch production support. Participate in regular on-call rotations.

Education and Experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science (or related field) with 6+ years of software development experience, preferably in Java
• 3+ years of experience in search technologies such as Elasticsearch / Solr / Lucene
• 3+ years of experience in building micro-services / Rest APIs
• 3+ years of experience in using databases such as SQL Server, Redis and other NoSQL DBs
• Experience in building large scale multi-region, fault-tolerant and resilient system
• Software engineering skills in system architecture & design, coding, OOP, test driven development
• Experience with multi-node clustering, ETL, monitoring of systems and APIs.
• Knowledge of hot/warm/cold data, ILM (Index Life Cycle policies), Data streams, Transforms, CCR and other infrastructure aspect of services and Elasticsearch
• Strong experience in building micro-services, REST principles and design patterns
• In-depth knowledge of Java, Docker, RESTful web services, Spring, Kubernetes, Observability techniques, Kafka, Release processes, versioning, B&D and caching strategies
• Phenomenal communication and influencing skills

Nice to have

• Machine learning background in using ML in search.
• Learning to Rank, NLP
• Experience in Vector search / semantic search using vector search engines
• Experience in building real time data engineering pipeline

Market America offers competitive salary and generous benefits, including health, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability insurance, and a 401(k) retirement plan with company match.

Qualified candidates should apply online. This position will work remotely based from our California offices.


Market America is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Market America | SHOP.COM is changing the way people shop and changing the economic paradigm so anyone can become financially independent by creating their own economy and converting their spending into earning with the Shopping Annuity®.

ABOUT MARKET AMERICA, INC. & SHOP.COM

Market America Worldwide | SHOP.COM is a global e-commerce and digital marketing company that specializes in one-to-one marketing and is the creator of the Shopping Annuity . Its mission is to provide a robust business system for entrepreneurs, while providing consumers a better way to shop. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, and with eight sites around the globe, including the U.S., Market America Worldwide was founded in 1992 by Founder, Chairman & CEO JR Ridinger. Through the company's primary, award-winning shopping website, SHOP.COM, consumers have access to millions of products, including Market America Worldwide exclusive brands and thousands of top retail brands. Further, SHOP.COM ranks 19^th in Newsweek magazine's 2021 Best Online Shops, No. 52 in Digital Commerce 360's (formerly Internet Retailer) 2021 Top 1,000 Online Marketplaces, No. 79 in Digital Commerce 360's 2021 Top 1,000 Online Retailers and No. 11 in the 2021 Digital Commerce 360 Primary Merchandise Category Top 500. The company is also a two-time winner of the Better Business Bureau's Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics and was ranked No. 15 in The Business North Carolina Top 125 Private Companies for 2021. By combining Market America Worldwide's entrepreneurial business model with SHOP.COM's powerful comparative shopping engine, Cashback program, Hot Deals, ShopBuddy^®, Express Pay checkout, social shopping integration and countless other features, the company has become the ultimate online shopping destination.

For more information about Market America Worldwide: MarketAmerica.com

For more information on SHOP.COM, please visit: SHOP.COM