SF based mobile start up Chomp is hiring!
We are looking for a Solr engineer to do short term contract work. The ideal candidate is a Solr generalist and has good knowledge of all aspects of implementing vertical search (schema design, indexing, querying, ranking and relevance, etc.). Some experience with semantic search is helpful but not necessary. Although the candidate is a contractor, they should be able to work closely with other engineers to build a search product together, rather than being the "solo hired gun" type.
We are also looking for search engineers to join our team full time. These people should have experience with building custom indexing and/or querying components, either from scratch or on top of Lucene/Solr. They should have experience working on search problems where the data is highly structured and/or hierarchical (e.g. product data, or flight data). Experience with semantic search and computational linguistic/machine learning techniques is highly desirable. They should be interested in breaking new ground with search and solving very difficult problems.
About Chomp:
With more than 1billion mobile apps being downloaded every 60 days, and the mobile internet growing at 8X the speed of the web in 1994 when netscape was first released, app discoverability has become a major problem. Chomp has assembled a team consisting of people that have had huge success with mobile startups previously, are from Google or Admob or have displayed extraordinary talent in the area of search/recommendation/mobile to take advantage of this unique market opportunity & to solve the app discoverability problem across all app platforms that matter. Chomp is backed by John Malloy, Ron Conway & other top tier investors.
Interested? For more details on the position, please send resume and a little about yourself to rachel@chomp.com. Please feel free to include any side projects, blogs, and/or portfolios as well!
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