Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Course Hero is scaling! We are looking for an entrepreneurial software engineer to take ownership of Course Hero’s consumer-facing Site Search. You will be part of the Discovery pod and will be responsible for shipping compelling and engaging search and recommendations experiences that will help millions of students discover relevant, course-specific content that empowers them to graduate confident and prepared. 

We expect you to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, and adapt to constantly evolving business needs. You can view these videos to learn more about our engineering culture, and our company mission.

Here are some ways you will make an impact:

• Design, implement, test, and maintain Course Hero’s Search Platform components in the context of a multi-tier, scalable, high-volume, and reliable distributed systems that perform 24x7.
• Leverage Elasticsearch/Solr infrastructure and search/ML techniques to solve challenging problems in maintaining the infrastructure.
• Implement, extend, and modularize our federated search system architecture to meet 10x growth in search volume and diverse search intents from students, educators, and tutors.

Are you our next Senior Software Engineer for Search? 

• 5+ years experience developing search algorithms and applications using Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene.
• Proven understanding of object-oriented and functional programming
• Hands-on experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems
• Modern engineering languages (Python, Go), microservices SOA architecture
• Knowledge of standard processes related to security, performance, scalability and disaster recovery.
• Comfortable using AWS services such as, K8, ECS, SWF, SQS, OpenSearch
• MS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or have equivalent practical experience
• Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical design and implementation

Bonus Points 

• Experience with data pipelining using Spark or Athena 
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Ecosystem
• Passionate about education

• Competitive salary, annual bonus, and RSUs
• Medical coverage, including full dental and vision
• Life and disability benefits
• 401(k) program (US)  / retirement savings plan (Canada) with company match
• One month paid sabbatical after 5 years at the company
• Education reimbursement
• Professional development workshops & industry conferences
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible work schedule
• Social responsibility program (volunteer time off and donation matching)
• Annual wellness stipend
• Monthly tech stipend
• Annual family planning stipend
• Monthly snack boxes delivered to your door
• Cell phone allowance