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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 the Role-
Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.
Reason to Join-
An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners. Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.
Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)
- The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
- Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
- Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
- Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
- Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
- Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
- Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions
Our client is the Health-tech initiative of India's largest business house. Started in 2015, it empowers healthcare providers and consumers in India. All healthcare monitoring services are made available through an app that will help connect doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories and consumers, enabling preventive and predictive healthcare. It helps the care-givers to track the entire patient journey from the initial appointment and maintaining their records, generating lab test reports to providing virtual consultation and home-care solutions. It is expected that this futuristic guide will strengthen doctor-patient relationship and enhance the in-clinic experience.
As the Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.
What you will do:
- Building components for the company's advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
- Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and solutions effectively
- Participating in technical planning and requirements gathering phases including design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications
- Developing the Code as per the requirements
- Working with product team and constructing the tech roadmap
- Designing, building and scaling the company's backend microservices
- Maintaining code integrity and organization
- Applying all quality requirements to make the code production ready
- Developing and deploying new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
- Developing documentation related to technical aspects and to facilitate current support, development, upgrades, or migrations
- Designing and building efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
- Pro actively catching and fixing bugs, and providing support for the back end services
- Managing servers and infrastructure by keeping the lights on and refining the deployment architecture
What you need to have:
- Expert at hands on programming in JAVA and J2EE
- Must be from Product based companies (Should have developed Web Apps)
- Proven expertise in Java interfaces with MongoDB (or similar noSQL databases) as well as relational databases (mySQL, Postgres etc)
- Key contributor in atleast one 6+ months development project involving SpringBoot and Hibernate
- Strong understanding of application server infrastructure
- Good working knowledge of Maven based build systems
- Good understanding of build and deployment pipelines that involve ANT and Jenkins
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git or SVN
- Good knowledge of working on Rest APIs , Webservices
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Hands on experience with Lucene/Solr
- Familiarity with DiagFlow based chat bot building
- Knowledge of NLP
- Learnt AI/ML systems
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships.
- Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
- Able to effectively collaborate with a team as well as take initiative and work independently to solve problems
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years of object-orientedJava/ J2EE development
- Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc…)
- Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring
- Experience with SOAP / REST web services
- Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable
- Understanding concepts of CDN & Content Management
- Must have worked on any one messaging solutions
- Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience
- Bonus points for any mobile development experience
- Used Agile methodology
- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams
- Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems
- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage
POSITION
- You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle. Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support.
- Primary role in software development with object-orientedJava
- The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with spring / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, and SQL.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and re-architecture
- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms
- Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud based or hosted product platforms
- Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great customers products.
- Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.
QUALIFICATION
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- M-Tech or advanced degree a plus
- Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus
Aimed at building a massive parallel economy, This For That, is looking for highly driven engineers to build out a world class product. The product is in its early stages so there’s a lot to learn and build from scratch. You will get to work alongside seasoned business and marketing professionals and become part of the core engineering team.
Ideal skills:
1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience
2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels
4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance
5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills
6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)
7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases
8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures
11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks
12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times
13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr
14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment
15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces
16) Experience with NoSQL queries
17) Experience with AWS
18) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams
In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.
Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.







