Associate Principal Engineer

Summary

Join Nagarro, a rapidly growing Digital Product Engineering company, as a senior engineer with 11+ years of experience. You will leverage your expertise in OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, semantic search, and Java/Spring Boot to design, develop, and optimize large-scale search solutions. Responsibilities include translating business requirements into technical solutions, writing high-quality code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will play a key role in defining architecture, ensuring scalability and security, and troubleshooting performance issues. A strong background in software development, cloud deployment, and problem-solving is essential.

Requirements

• Total Experience 11+ years
• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, including expertise in Text analyzers, cluster management, Elasticsearch Query DSL, aggregations, highlighting, percolation, and system scaling
• Strong experience in Semantic Search
• Ability to design and optimize indexing processes for large-scale data
• Experience in the software industry deploying web applications, ingestion & search pipelines, and microservices into cloud production environments
• Strong programming skills in Java with Spring Boot Microservices
• Ability to troubleshoot issues independently and optimize performance
• Knowledge of Python programming
• Experience or familiarity with semantic search and vector databases
• Understanding of Solr
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions effectively
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Write and review great quality code
• Understand the client’s business use cases and technical requirements and be able to convert them into technical design which elegantly meets the requirements
• Map decisions with requirements and be able to translate the same to developers
• Identify different solutions and be able to narrow down the best option that meets the client’s requirements
• Define guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation
• Write and review design document explaining overall architecture, framework, and high-level design of the application for the developers
• Review architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience, NFRs, etc., and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed
• Develop and design the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and define technologies, patterns, and frameworks to materialize it
• Understand and relate technology integration scenarios and apply these learnings in projects
• Resolve issues that are raised during code/review, through exhaustive systematic analysis of the root cause, and be able to justify the decision taken
• Carry out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements