Wednesday, November 26, 2014

International Search Engineer - Shutterstock - New York, NY

As an International Search Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to improve Shutterstock’s best-in-class image and video search engines for many languages and locales throughout the world. Our web applications and services currently support 20 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. Your work will continually improve the international search experience and be seen worldwide by millions of customers daily. At Shutterstock, developers work on small cross-functional teams that have a voice in setting their own priorities and work to build and deploy applications iteratively.

Responsibilities: Write and maintain high-quality software that solves real-world meaningful problems at scale Identify and implement innovative solutions to language-specific search Work closely with other engineers, product owners, and researchers; and provide linguistic expertise and direction for language-specific NLP projects Establish, track, and improve key language-specific search performance metrics Requirements: Minimum 3 years experience writing innovative algorithmic solutions to complex problems Experience in NLP research, semantics, syntax, and related areas Experience with large projects in Java or Perl Ability to shepherd projects from prototype stage into production Experience with CJK or other non-Latin writing systems Proficiency with Unicode encodings and standards, Solr and Lucene, SQL databases A/B testing experience The ideal candidate will be goal-oriented, customer experience-focused, and works well in a team environment. Desired Skills:
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