Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Course Hero's team as a Staff Software Engineer to take ownership of the consumer-facing Site Search and design, implement, test, and maintain search and recommendations experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience developing search algorithms and applications using search engine toolkits like Elasticsearch, Opensearch or Solr
• Proficient in object-oriented and functional programming
• Hands-on experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems
• Proficient in modern engineering languages (Python, Go,Java), microservices SOA architecture
• Creating and optimizing search DSL
• Data indexing (and index management) on search engines
• Python & Go REST/gRPC Services
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or have equivalent practical experience
• Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical design and implementation

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain Course Hero’s Search Platform components in the context of a multi-tier, scalable, high-volume, and reliable distributed systems that perform 24x7
• Use Elasticsearch/Solr infrastructure and search/ML techniques to seek exciting problems in relevance ranking and semantic search
• Implement, extend, and modularize our federated search system architecture to meet 10x growth in search volume and diverse search intents from students, educators, and tutors
• Collaborate with ML, UX, and product to conceptualize and execute on our exciting content discovery roadmap

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with text processing, NLP, and data pipelining using Spark or Athena
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Ecosystem
• Has worked previously as part of a Search team (applications or infrastructure)
• Data pipelining (can do Airflow/Kafka pipelines for indexing to Elasticsearch and DynamoDB)
• Passionate about education

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity/stock options
• Annual performance bonus
• Health insurance coverage (7 Lacs for self and family)
• Life Insurance 3X the CTC
• Accidental Insurance 3X the CTC
• Learning and Development Policy Reimbursement of Courses
• Privilege Leave
• Paid Leaves
• Casual Leaves
• Mandatory Leaves
• Special Leaves
• Flexible Holiday
• Menstrual Leaves
• Maternity Leaves & Flexible Paternity Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Marriage Leave
• Workstation Setup Reimbursement
• Internet Bill Reimbursement
• Remote Friendly culture
• Quarterly team and city meetings
• Annual Workations