💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Software Engineer

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EPAM Systems
📍 Chicago, IL, United States
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Location
Chicago, United States
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Posted
June 02, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

We are seeking a **Senior Engineer** with deep expertise in Apache Solr to design, build, and optimize scalable search solutions. This role focuses on improving search performance, relevancy, and indexing pipelines in a cloud-based environment. You will own search relevance across both traditional keyword-based and modern semantic (vector-based) retrieval.

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**Responsibilities**

+ Design, build, and maintain Solr-based search platforms
+ Optimize search relevancy, ranking, and query performance
+ Build and manage indexing pipelines for large datasets
+ Deploy and operate services in AWS
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams on search and recommendation features
+ Explore and implement ML-driven enhancements for search
+ Define and implement hybrid search strategies combining keyword and vector-based retrieval
+ Build and operate vector search pipelines within Solr/Lucene
+ Measure and improve search relevance using e...