Flexible work model
Work from home, from the office, or in a hybrid format that supports focus and collaboration.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join the BoardVantage engineering team to modernize search for a secure, enterprise board portal, evolving today’s Java and Solr-based retrieval toward smarter search. You’ll work inside a mature platform, designing an incremental migration path that protects authorization, availability, and rollback while improving how directors find critical documents.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Map the existing Java search flow, Solr/SolrCloud schemas, analyzers, tenant topology, indexing pipelines, ACL handling, and document retrieval behavior
- Design and implement a search facade with feature flags, enabling new retrieval capabilities alongside existing Solr search with safe rollback
- Partner with Search/AI engineers to establish lexical-search baselines and integrate improved retrieval behind the existing BoardVantage search API
- Ensure document- and page-level permissions are enforced within the retrieval path so unauthorized content never appears in search results
- Own Java-side changes for search filters, paging, indexing, tenant enablement, rebuilds, deletion, and lifecycle operations
- Improve index lifecycle strategies, including partial rebuilds, tenant deletion, aliases or partitioning, while minimizing downtime and infrastructure load
- Support shadow and dual-run approaches to compare new retrieval with existing production behavior before cutover
- Work closely with existing code owners to extend automated tests, introduce event-publishing contracts where required, and evolve the monolith incrementally rather than rewrite it
REQUIREMENTS
- Strong senior-level Java engineering experience with long-lived backend systems or enterprise monoliths
- Deep hands-on experience with Solr/SolrCloud, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch, including schemas, analyzers, indexing, multi-tenant collections, reindexing, and lifecycle management
- Experience designing search APIs covering filters, paging, feature flags, rebuild, enablement, and deletion workflows
- Practical understanding of lexical search, including BM25, and how it complements semantic/vector retrieval for known-item search
- Experience enforcing document- or page-level ACLs directly within a search or retrieval path
- Proven ability to modify existing automated tests and modernize systems incrementally using strangler, shadow, or dual-run patterns
- SolrCloud/ZooKeeper operations, Azure Service Bus/JMS event publishing, or document-management platforms are strong advantages
- Comfortable collaborating across engineering, Search/AI, cloud, security, and product teams while making pragmatic decisions within an established architecture
SoftServe is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship, disability, health condition, marital or family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Role Summary
Location
Poland
Work type
Remote/Office
Direction
Engineering & Technology
Subdirection
Software Development
Tech level
Senior
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