Search Engine Developer, Elasticsearch

About us: Xpansa creates large scale business management and data analysis systems. The main targets are Biotech, Life sciences, and High Tech organizations. Our mission is to build systems that will help the brightest minds to collaborate and create biotech, medical and robotics solutions of the future. Xpansa is global company with a prevalent presence in Eastern Europe. We offer our colleagues a flexible working environment combining office and remote workspaces. There is currently a job opening for one of our projects, http://infinitysciences.com/ . You will create a system that helps pharma companies and universities worldwide to speed up progress in life sciences. It is a big data predictive analytics platform that reports early signals and calculates probabilities in the drug and therapy discovery process. Job description: We are looking for the engineer with a specialization in search engines. This role will apply expertise to implement information retrieval application to extract biomedical records from the internal database with the means of Elasticsearch. You will be part of the R&D team of the InfinitySciences and collaborate with engineers of Xpansa, pharma companies and scientists. Daily tasks will include but not limited to search engine configuration, clustered / balanced deployment, indexing and requests design to get relevant results. If you have active interest in biomedical data analysis then it is a huge benefit to share common motivation with the whole team. This is part-time remote position. Education: … BS, MS/PhD in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics or other technical field. Advanced degrees preferred. Experience and Skills: … Elasticsearch / Lucene / Sphinx deep configuration experience on 2 projects minimum. … Kibana, Sense usage expertise. … Clustered deployment of the Elasticsearch. … Integration of the Elasticsearch with Python client. … Java / Python development for 2 years min. ... Strong object-oriented design & development skills. ... Experience in development on Unix / Linux platforms. … MySQL and one of NoSQL databases experience. … Worked on 2 data analysis projects with team of 2 persons at least. … Experience with core NLP techniques and tasks. … Use version control regularly. We use Gitlab / GitHub. … Intermediate English language communication and writing skills. … Interest/ Knowledge in the biomedical ontologies is a massive plus. Personal qualities: ... Strong analytical, communication, and problem solving skills. ... Team-oriented individual, energetic, results oriented, and interested in quality. … Responsible and reliable person. … Proactivity and self-learning