Search Tech Engineering Team Lead - Java

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Location(s): Mumbai

Media.net Contextual Advertising

Media.net, Directi's Internet Advertising Division, is one of the world's leading companies in the Contextual Advertising space. We build technology that identifies the intent of a user viewing a webpage and then shows advertisements related to what the user is looking for. We use Machine Learning, Data Mining, Linguistic Analysis and Advanced Statistics to build contextual models to understand pages on the internet.

We serve our contextual real-time ads customized for each visitor and each page view across billions of visitors, across 10's of millions sites/domains on a server infrastructure that runs 1000+ CPUs, terabytes of RAM, and 100's of terabytes of data.

What is the Job like?

As a Team Lead / Lead Developer in the Search Engineering area, you will lead product engineering efforts of multiple areas of our intent discovery secret-sauce and work with world class R&D teams to develop game-changing search and text inference algorithms that will help millions of internet users discover what they are looking for. Our Search/Ad Platform involves myriad technologies, diverse platforms, complex algorithms and latest application paradigms such as NoSQL databases, eventual consistency, distributed queues and are deployed across hundreds of servers in a super-scalable fashion where a 10ms delay in response time could mean the difference between success and failure.

In a Team Lead role you will manage a team of energized developers, and will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of one or more areas, including architecture, design, coding, deployment etc. We believe that 'code speaks louder than words' and as such expect everyone at every level in the engineering team to be comfortable with rolling up their sleeves, firing up their favorite IDE and writing clean, testable and well-designed code.

Who should apply for this post?

You have over 6 years of software development experience with atleast 3 years spent leading a project with a team of 'A' players. You have mastered multiple platforms and - whether it is SOAP vs REST or Ajax vs Flex or Postgres vs MySQL or Cassandra vs Voldemort - you know when to use which and can argue all the pros and cons of Strong typing vs ease of use OR browser compatibility issues vs lack of community support OR MVCC vs multiple backend storage engines OR scalability vs simplicity etc.

You continue to be very involved in technology and still check-in code. You are passionate about automated testing, good design, performance and scalability. You have exceptional oral/written communication skills, excellent logical reasoning and a keen sense of business. You can deliver good software with a kick-ass user experience, at a rapid pace.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

6+ years of software development experience with 3 years in a leadership role (The more core-Java focused the better)
A track record of working on scalable applications, preferably at a major internet property or well known startup
Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns, Algorithms, Data Structures, Networking and OS Concepts
Familiarity with relational databases, experience of writing complex queries (we use MS-SQL/MySQL)
Search Experience a Plus (Solr/Lucene, Fast Search, Autonomy, GSA, Endeca, etc)
Can exhibit a passion and enthusiasm for remarkable technology (Knowledge and contribution to open source projects, Active Blog, etc...)
Ability to learn emerging technical standards and apply/coach development team in proper adoption
As an individual - it's in your nature to question why things are the way they are.

Bonus points:

Knowledge of the interior workings of various search platforms (Lucene)
Hadoop/Mahout experience
Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning experience
You wrote your first program on a ZX Spectrum (Add extra points if you still own the wicked cool box )

Other info

We are an extremely tech-focused company. As a techie you may also appreciate our coding puzzles page. Additionally, you may want to saunter by our latest community initiative - CodeChef - a non-commercial, multi-platform online coding competition, featuring monthly contests in more than 35 different programming languages.

If you choose to apply you may want to take a look at our Interview Process

Benefits & Perks

Directians love their jobs, and not just because we offer the most competitive salaries in the industry. Our excellent benefits include everything from great medical and life insurance to catered meals. Our workspaces are comfortable and fun, complete with bean bag chairs, ping pong tables, and all the snacks you can eat. We have no dress code (tee-shirts are a-ok!). We have flexible work hours and flexible holidays, which means that teams pick their own work hours. Directi has its own concierge desk that doubles up as a travel agency?

We are passionate about building the next generation of web products, and we believe that happy directians are the key to achieving this goal. If you like the idea of working in an exciting workspace on cutting-edge internet products that make a truly global impact (and wearing flip-flops to work), then we want to get to know you!