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Lead Search Server Engineer (Backend / Mobile)Employee

Startup   |   kikin Inc
Kikin Inc is looking to double our team in SoHo, NYC with more bright and fun developers and designers.
  • Location: SoHo, NYC
  • Date Posted: June 22, 2012

About This Job:

kikin, Inc. was founded by successful serial entrepreneurs, with a passion for compelling, disruptive consumer products. We are a group of talented professionals who have reinvented the search experience, allowing users to search by touch, and bringing users relevant, actionable answers. With kikin, users search, learn and do more! Starting in late 2012, we will begin to deploy kikin to 1 Billion users, and we will do everything possible to ensure that our users love kikin! To help us create and extend kikin's truly unique user experiences, we are looking to double our team in SoHo, NYC with more bright and fun developers, designers and marketers. To learn more about kikin's work hard and play harder culture, please visit us at www.kikin.com.

kikin, Inc. is looking for a talented Lead Search/Server Engineer. The primary areas of focus includes but is not limited to:

  • Semantic indexing
  • Federated Search
  • Data Mining
  • Disambiguation
  • Multithreading
  • Latency Reduction
  • Entity Categorization

Responsibilities

  • Participate in all stages of development including design, implementation, and testing of our next-generation
  • Federated Search and Personalization back-end
  • Lead and mentor a small team of back-end software engineers
  • Integrate Content, Commerce, and Service partners' feeds into our back-end
  • Collaborate with Product Management on algorithms and engaging features
  • Address evolving user requirements, process flows, performance and scalability
  • Enjoy problem solving and designing algorithms
  • Write efficient and maintainable code
  • Learn more about, disseminate and incorporate leading edge technology
  • Be a contributing member of a high-performance engineering team

Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years leading projects and managing a small team
  • Knowledge of advanced Java and experience with in performance-oriented Java
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience is required
  • Prior experience with REST, Caching, Clustering, Distributed Computing, XML Object Mapping, and Web Services
  • Data loading experience and overall database experience is a must
  • Experience with Spring, AJAX, DHTML, JavaScript, jQuery and/or CSS
  • Expertise in XML, MySQL, Apache, Application servers such as Resin, Linux
  • Experience with Compass, Lucene, SOLR desired
  • Sees the world as semantic relationships and translates that into code
  • Interest in both the big picture and minute details

Benefits / Perks

  • Competitive salary
  • Performance based stock options
  • Three (3) weeks vacation
  • Low/No cost Health insurance
  • Low/No cost Dental insurance
  • 401K
  • Flexible Spending
  • Pre-Tax Commuter Plan
  • Gym Reimbursement
  • Free snacks & beverages
  • Competitive foosball games daily
  • Work in the heart of SoHo

TO APPLY: Please email your resume and cover letter This position is full-time located in New York City (SoHo). This is not a telecommuting or contract role. kikin, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Thank you for you interest in kikin, Inc. PLEASE NO PHONE CALLS - NO AGENCIES - NO THIRD PARTIES

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