Hi All, If you've wanted a full time job working on Lucene or Solr, we have two positions open that just might be of interest. The job descriptions are below. Interested candidates should submit their resumes off list to care...@lucidimagination.com.
You can learn more on our website: http://www.lucidimagination.com/about/careers. Thanks, Grant -Open Source Software Engineer DESCRIPTION Lucid Imagination is looking for a software engineer to work on the open source Apache Solr and Lucene projects. As part of Lucid's open source team, you will help implement features and provide fixes for issues in the world's premier open source search server and library. You will also work closely with Lucid's research team and technical support team to enable both community and customer consumption of Solr and Lucene. REQUIREMENTS • Strong interest in working on high performance and large scale problems. • Understanding of debugging and performance testing in a highly concurrent systems. • Core Java expertise. • Experience writing unit tests and working with continuous integration tools. • Willingness to participate in and contribute to a vibrant, fast-paced open source community. • Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. • Desire to learn and be a part of a startup. • Degree in computer science or related field. • Experience with Lucene, Solr, Hadoop and related NoSQL technologies is not required, but is considered a bonus. EXPERIENCE 0-5 years programming experience in Java. SALARY Based on experience LOCATION Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area (preferred) TRAVEL Minimal (occasional trips to California) - Senior Consultant DESCRIPTION Lucid Imagination is currently looking to hire a Senior Consultant to be part of our Professional Services team. REQUIREMENTS • Experience working with Lucene and/or Solr required. • Establish yourself as a credible, reliable, likable, genuine, and trustworthy advisor to your customers. • Provide expert-level advisory services to a wide range of customers with varying degrees of technical knowledge. • Clearly identify customer pain points, priorities, and success criteria at the onset of each engagement. • Resolve complex search issues in and around the Lucene/Solr ecosystem. • Document recommendations in the form of Best Practice Assessments. • Identify opportunities to provide customers with additional value through follow-on products and/or services. • Communicate high-value use cases and customer feedback to our Product Development and Engineering teams. • Contribute to the open source community by donating needed bug fixes and improvements; answering message boards; documenting existing code; and blogging. • Support Business Development through product demos and customer Q&A. • Collaborate on internal Lucid projects. • Develop training materials and deliver classroom training on occasion. EXPERIENCE • BS or higher in Engineering or Computer Science preferred. • 3 or more years of IT Consulting and/or Professional Services experience required. • Some Java development experience. • Some experience with common scripting languages (Perl/Python/Ruby). • Exposure to other related open source projects (Mahout, Hadoop, Tika, etc.) a plus. • Experience with other commercial and open source search technologies a plus. • Enterprise Search, eCommerce, and/or Business Intelligence experience a plus. • Experience working in a startup a plus. SALARY Based on experience LOCATION: San Francisco/Bay Area (preferred) TRAVEL: 10-20%
