Search Product Engineer, Experienced

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.
Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Federal Reserve is looking for an experienced Search Engineer to help the Digital Platform Team create advanced search capabilities - such as NLP, AI, and text analysis. You will be curious to know how a user would ask for data and present it to the end user in a digestible and secure manner. In addition, you will have the potential to change how Federal Reserve employees find data and discover knowledge. There are many new emerging technologies in this space that require solving complex problems quickly and effectively. You will communicate how a complicated systems work to stakeholders and will need to confidently build on top of existing standards where security is paramount.

The Federal Reserve practices Agile. The team works in 2-week iterations and works together to collaborate on solutions with a delivery mindset (progress over process).

What You Will Do:

• 5 years of experience working on Search solutions.

• Experience working on a full stack with a heavy focus on API development and data intake.

• Participate in On-Call rotation

• Agile tasks: story writing, backlog grooming, point sizing

• Troubleshoot technical issues, perform root cause analysis and take appropriate action to remediate issues

Qualifications:

• Understanding of search concepts: query parsing, indexing pipelines, relevancy ranking, tokenization.

• Solr or another Enterprise Search solution (e.g., OpenSearch, Elastic Search, etc.)

• AWS Cloud experience

• Excellent and proven problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills

• Able to effectively work alone or as part of a team

• Java Development experience: JDK 11+, understanding of the JVM, garbage collection techniques

• Basic template framework (Thyme, Mustache, etc.)

• Spring boot development (or similar such as Micronaut or Quarkus)

• Automated Testing experience

• Automated build experience

• Understanding of database technologies: RDBMS and NoSQL

• Data modeling

• Exposure to developing a data intake workflow

• Web security standards (SSL certificate management, authentication protocols, encryption)

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of security trimming would be a plus

• Understanding or certification with government or classified data security standards

• LucidWorks Fusion experience would be a plus

• Data extraction experience a plus (such as SharePoint, Confluence, ServiceNow, Jira)

• Terraform or similar experience would be a plus

• Security scanning tools such as SonarCube

• CICD Pipeline technologies (Gitlab CICD, Jenkins, Ansible, or similar)

• Selenium / automated front-end testing

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits

• Pension and 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee resource networks

• Paid volunteer leave

• Flexible work options

• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict-of-interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify [email protected].

• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).

• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.

• The hiring range is $90,200 – $123,970 LIR annually.

• For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers (https://rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS) or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

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