
About Unilog
Unilog is the only connected product content and eCommerce provider serving the Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail industries. Our flagship CX1 Platform is at the center of some of the most successful digital transformations in North America. CX1 Platform’s syndicated product content, integrated eCommerce storefront, and automated PIM tool simplify our customers' path to success in the digital marketplace.
With more than 500 customers, Unilog is uniquely positioned as the leader in eCommerce and product content for Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail.
Unilog’s Mission Statement
At Unilog, our mission is to provide purpose-built connected product content and eCommerce solutions that empower our customers to succeed in the face of intense competition. By virtue of living our mission, we are able to transform the way Wholesale Distributors, Manufacturers, and Specialty Retailers go to market. We help our customers extend a digital version of their business and accelerate their growth.
Job Details
- Designation: Principal Engineer – Solr
- Location: Bangalore / Mysore / Remote
- Job Type: Full-time
- Department: Software R&D
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer with a strong background in Apache Solr and Java to lead our Engineering and customer-led initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our search platform while providing expert-level troubleshooting and resolution for critical production issues.
This role will involve designing the architecture for new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Engineering and support activities for Solr-based search applications, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
- Design and develop the architecture of new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones
- Regularly work towards enhancing search ranking, query understanding, and retrieval effectiveness
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues in Solr, Java-based applications, and supporting infrastructure
- Perform deep-dive analysis of logs, performance metrics, and alerts to proactively prevent incidents
- Optimize Solr indexes, queries, and configurations to enhance search performance and reliability
- Work closely with development, operations, and business teams to drive improvements in system stability and efficiency
- Implement monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to enhance observability and proactive issue detection
- Exposure to AI-based search using vector databases, RAG models, NLP, and LLMs
- Collaborate on capacity planning, system scaling, and disaster recovery strategies for mission-critical search systems
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams
- Drive innovation by tracking latest trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AI-based Search, Solr, and other search platforms
Requirement
- 8+ years of experience in software development and production support with a focus on Apache Solr, Java, and databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Strong understanding of Solr indexing, query execution, schema design, configuration, and tuning
- Experience in designing and implementing scalable system architectures for search platforms
- Proven ability to review and assess existing platform architectures, identifying areas for improvement and recommending better approaches
- Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and micro-services architectures
- Experience with Linux / Unix-based environments, shell scripting, and debugging production systems
- Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack) and log analysis
- Expertise in troubleshooting performance issues related to Solr, JVM tuning, and memory management
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerization technologies like Docker / Kubernetes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Certifications in Solr, Java, or cloud technologies
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
About Our Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Training and development opportunities

About Unilog
About
Unilog is a leader in connected product content and commerce, empowering businesses with the platform, content, and connectivity solutions they need to thrive in the digital landscape. By bridging the gap between manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers, Unilog enables seamless product experiences that drive sales, improve efficiency, and keep businesses competitive.
Our comprehensive suite of solutions is designed to help organizations stay relevant, reduce their cost to serve, and unlock new growth opportunities. From advanced content management to robust commerce platforms, Unilog supports businesses in delivering consistent, accurate, and engaging product information across channels.
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· Position Title: Expert Java Engineer
· Experience Range: 9 to 12 yrs
· Location: Pune
Notice Period : Immediate Joiner
Must have Requirements
● 9+ years’ of experience working as a software developer.
● Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
● Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL.
● Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures.
● History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control.
Proficient in Golang, Python, Java, C++, or Ruby (at least one)
Strong grasp of system design, data structures, and algorithms
Experience with RESTful APIs, relational and NoSQL databases
Proven ability to mentor developers and drive quality delivery
Track record of building high-performance, scalable systems
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Experience in consulting or contractor roles is a plus
What you will do?
Project Management
- Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap.
- Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
- Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
- Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
- Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)
People Management
- Hire and mentor a team of engineers
- Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
- Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team
Technical Work
- Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
- Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
- Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability
What we look for?
Must Haves
- Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
- Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
- Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.
Good to Have
- Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
- Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
- Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress
Requirements:
Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing, Testing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
1. Proven hands-on Software Development experience
2. Proven working experience in Java development
3. Hands on experience in developing applications using Java EE platforms
4. Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
5. Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
6. Experience in the Spring Framework
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backend, core java, java8, micro services
Be a part of IOT Product portfolio and execute towards Digital Transformational initiatives.
Prepare design documents in collaboration with product managers and engineering squads
in development of use cases for new features.
Hands on product lead developer expertise in designing solutions running on hybrid cloud
environments.
Work as a Software Lead in application development using Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL and
other latest technologies running on AWS environments.
Drive Engineering activities in Microservices and Cloud based Architecture by leveraging
DevOps efficiencies and adopting new technology stack in AWS.
Drive communication and consistently report accurate product status for stakeholders
Able to lead a team of engineers, help them with technical issues. (80% self-work and 20%
influencing scrum engineers).
Balance time on development projects including Technical Design, Code Reviews, Mentoring,
and training. Able to break down requirements and build traceability in design and
implementation details.
Work with developers to define unit & automated tests and closely monitor development
milestones. Collaborate with scrum team to identify functional, system and end to end
integration of products leading to deployment.
Understand end to end flow in product development and able to prepare design documents
and present to Engineering and Product Leadership team.
Full stack product development experience.
Skills Required :
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree equivalent with strong knowledge methodology and tools.
8+ years working Experience in designing data, keyword driven or hybrid strategies; Ability
to troubleshoot and think out of the box
Experience in CICD pipeline configuration, creation, and maintenance – from build to deploy
to integration.
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive design documents covering
functional and non-functional requirements.
Hands-on experience in large enterprise development in a multi-cloud environment.
Strong expertise over Java, Python language, Databases, experience in web Frameworks like
Django required for backend development.
Experience of working in AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, Security, ILM and AWS Services).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for Container Management and Orchestration by
setting CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins / Ansible.
Experience with API (REST/SOAP). Experienced in PowerBI, RDBMS, DB Architecture design
and good control over SQL queries.
Experience with any NoSQL Database, Caching and Messaging is a plus. Experience with
Messaging Tool and Caching Frameworks
Strong Understanding of fundamental concepts: Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPs
concepts, Design patterns and Architectures. Experience with Agile programming techniques
such as test-driven development. Design applications to optimize for performance and
usability.

- Strong experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but
not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#
- Demonstrated expertise working with at least one modern enterprise application frameworks like
Spring Boot, Play Framework, Django
- Demonstrated expertise in building scalable distributed applications in microservices architecture
- Expert knowledge of best practice software engineering methodologies and coding standards
- Strong and proven advocacy for Test Driven Development is preferred
- Experience with SQL (mySQL, Postgres, etc) and NoSQL (MongoDb, DynamoDB, Aerospike or Redis)
- Production experience in running cloud-based enterprise-grade systems at scale
- Natural ability to process requirements, figure out multiple execution options, their complexity, and
estimate the scope of work required to get tasks done
- DevOps experience
- Cloud experience (AWS required, Google Cloud Platform bonus
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- 3+ years of professional product development experience.
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- Hands-on experience working with Spring, Spring Boot
- In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience working with Java Web Services, RESTful services
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