Software Engineer

Summary

Join Lucidworks' Fusion Engineering team as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development of core features for our search and personalization platform. This remote role, open to candidates in Mexico or Jamaica, involves working on microservice-based features, implementing designs, collaborating with colleagues across departments, and ensuring high-quality documentation. You will write and maintain code, participate in design reviews, and provide technical support. The ideal candidate possesses extensive Java experience, a passion for creating excellent customer experiences, and strong communication skills. Lucidworks values diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience developing Java-based microservice applications in an enterprise software organization using SpringBoot
• Experience tracking software development work using an issue tracking system (Jira preferred) and source control (Git and GitHub)
• Enthusiastic to grow as a software engineer and develop new skills in software development, technical communication, and team collaboration
• Passionate about creating delightful customer and stakeholder experiences
• Excellent technical communication skills and a drive to share knowledge with colleagues
• Eager to work collaboratively with a diverse team spread across multiple time zones, regions, and cultures
• Developing cloud-native applications deployed with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Helm
• Using cloud tools from GCS and/or AWS
• Implementing a search application, particularly one based on Solr
• Integrating observability, tracing, and/or auditing tooling into a distributed application

Responsibilities

• Write new code and maintain existing code for core Fusion features and functionality according to agreed requirements and specifications
• Ensure code is well-covered by robust unit and integration tests. Improve test coverage and refactor code as necessary to assure high performance, high scalability, and system reliability
• Participate in requirements design, code reviews, and internal feature demos with colleagues to validate design decisions and implementation choices
• Collaborate with colleagues across the organization to develop quality assurance strategies and internal and external enablement via documentation and training
• Assist colleagues working with clients to answer technical questions about Fusion functionality and provide debugging support
• Communicate estimates of effort to management to assist in team commitments to development timelines
• Share knowledge with colleagues and management via developer documentation, team presentations, and demos

Preferred Qualifications

• Resourceful-willing to jump in, be agile/flexible, leverage existing resources to accomplish goals, ability to work independently
• Team player-confident in collaborating with a diverse community of people and personalities across geographies, backgrounds, and professional abilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Empathy and care for all stakeholders of Lucidwork including employees, customers, partners, and guests
• Ability to handle confidential information

Benefits

This is a remote role open to candidates in Mexico or Jamaica