Search Lead Engineer

About MasterControl

MasterControl Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based quality and compliance software for life sciences and other regulated industries. Our mission is the same as that of our customers to bring life-changing products to more people sooner. The MasterControl Platform helps organizations digitize, automate and connect quality and compliance processes across the regulated product development life cycle. Over 1,000 companies worldwide rely on MasterControl solutions to achieve new levels of operational excellence across product development, clinical trials, regulatory affairs, quality management, supply chain, manufacturing and postmarket surveillance. For more information, visit www.mastercontrol.com.

Summary

We are seeking a Search Lead Engineer with 12+ years of experience developing large-scale, complex applications with an emphasis on enterprise search. In this lead role, you will be responsible for leading and developing the technical implementation in coordination with Product Managers, Principal Engineers, and the Dev Team to build out our search capabilities in the platform supporting multiple applications. Search would include non-relational, relational, semantic, & natural language search capabilities to allow our users to search for relevant key items that derive value for them.

Responsibilities

Build the initial scalable search capability and be a technical mentor/example to your team and peers.

Engage with your team, provide code reviews, encourage best practices, and consistently raise others up

Design, implement, and operate high-quality backend services and solutions

Resolve product issues in conjunction with technical support

Be customer-focused with a high emphasis on quality in execution

Requirements

10+ years developing with object-oriented languages and frameworks, preferably in Java 5+ years in a lead or senior staff engineer role focused on search technology combining non-relational and relational search in a unified application experience. eg Elastic or similar, relational (Postgres, or other SQL Databases)

Several years of experience developing enterprise search applications in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP or similar) and building search for scale as part of a platform

Hands-on experience with keyword-based and vector-based search platforms

Strong knowledge of search metrics and search ranking systems

Strong knowledge of REST APIs, micro-services, and data structures

Strong critical thinking, problem-solving with engineering rigor

Strong experience with event-driven design

Strong sense of responsibility and drive to create exceptional applications

Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers

Strong written and communication skills and experience working cross-functionally is key for this role

Positive attitude with a penchant for collaboration and respect

Experience in GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Kafka