Motion Recruitment Looking for Senior Platform Software Engineer / Java at Chicago, IL Full Time

Our Client is a dynamic company looking for a few Senior Java Software engineers to add to their growing team in Chicago. They provide a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), allowing industry partners to customize, localize and integrate Voice Assistant and Search technologies directly into their business-to-consumer offerings. They utilize advanced machine learning to decipher meaning and surface the most relevant answers, results, content and ads, via conversational interfaces or text.

They are a unique group of brilliant minds discovering, learning and building. They work in a vibrant atmosphere, with an emphasis on personal and professional development. This is an opportunity to tackle complex problems usually reserved for a handful of large companies in the search industry.

They are looking for a talented Senior Java Engineers to join our team and deliver world-class search technologies. You will be working with a smart team of software developers and linguists on both full applications and tools that power their search platform.
Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science
• Expert in Java programming, including Generics and multi-threading
• Experience in scalable architectures and high-throughput application design
• Comfortable in Linux and Windows environments.
• Big Data Technologies (at least one of the following):
  • Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hadoop, Hive)
  • Spark
  • Samza
  • Kafka
  • Cassandra
  • Lucene NLP (Solr or ElasticSearch)

Desired Skills & Experience

• Machine Learning
• Continuous Integration and Deployment
• Tool usage: Git, and Intellij
• Gradle
• Scala
• Avro

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, possess excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and be able to work independently. A keen interest in various aspects of language processing is essential in our multi-disciplinary team
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown

• 80% Java
• 20% Data

Daily Responsibilities

• 100% Hands On

The Offer
You will receive the following benefits:

• Health/Medical, Dental Vision
• 23 days PTO
• 13 Holidays
• 401K
• Life Insurance

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.