SolrCloud Backend Engineer

SolrCloud Backend Engineer (Remote) Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) has been a leading enterprise Content Services Platform (eCSP) to Federal, Civilian and DoD agencies, has an opening for a SolrCloud Backend Engineer . Duties : The SolrCloud Backend Engineer serves is responsible for the design, development, and support of custom code and open-source components that power the SolrCloud search engine. The Java-based code includes springboot java services, parsers, query parsers, publisher, consistency check, APIs, monitoring utilities, and XSLT transforms. The candidate will work with state-of-the-art technologies including SolrCloud, Lucene, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Linux, Groovy, Python, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, DevSecOps, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Nexus, Ansible, TDD, BDD, JMeter, and other open-source frameworks. Skills qualifications (Required): 7+ years of experience as a backend engineer working with the SolrCloud search engine on enterprise-scale information retrieval systems. Hands-on experience integrating custom Java applications with SolrCloud, along with practical experience using the Spring or Spring Boot framework. Strong background indexing high-volume content and metadata into SolrCloud. Experience building and maintaining custom query parsers and request handlers using Lucene APIs. Solid experience developing REST services and Java-based search API layers with SolrJ. Expertise in query optimization, caching, and relevance tuning. Practical experience designing and maintaining schemas, including custom analyzers and tokenizers. Skilled in troubleshooting multi-tier systems on Linux, profiling Java applications, and tuning the JVM. Experience creating custom parsers for structured and unstructured content using core Java, regular expressions, and NLP. Strong XML skills, including JAXP parsing and XSLT/XPath for indexing workflows. Experience using templating engines and dynamic languages to decorate search results and extend Java APIs, such as Groovy, Scala, or Python. Monitoring experience with Prometheus and Grafana. DevOps experience with Git or GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, and Nexus. Experience with TDD or BDD, test automation, and performance testing. Experience working in Agile teams, including Scrum or Kanban. Strong written documentation skills. Public Trust Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. Benefits: 15 days paid time off per year 11 paid holidays per year Medical, Dental & Vision 401(k) Plan with matching Tuition assistance Disability insurance Referral Bonuses