Principal Software Engineer

About us: Accuris, a company long-known for accelerating innovation in engineering workflows and supporting the vibrancy of the engineering community, launched in May 2023 as a standalone company. Accuris was formerly known as S&P Global’s Engineering Solutions division. The Company is valued for its standards content and workflow solutions like Engineering Workbench, Goldfire, Haystack and Parts Management Solutions.

Under its previous owners, including S&P Global, IHS and IHS Markit, Accuris has been an integral part of the engineering ecosystem for more than 60 years.

The Role: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Poland - remote

The Team: Join our R&D team in developing the Core Intelligence platform, an integral part of Accuris products – Engineering Workbench, Goldfire and Parts Intelligence. Our mission is to drive digital transformation in engineering organizations by unlocking valuable insights from the unstructured content of corporate repositories and industry sources, seamlessly integrating them into daily engineering workflows. Our solutions serve over 7,500+ companies, empowering engineers and knowledge workers with cutting-edge tools and industry content from 450+ Standards Development Organizations. The project focuses on creating intelligent mechanisms for the extraction, decomposition, analysis, and retrieval of relevant engineering data, utilizing advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning models within a scalable and optimized cloud infrastructure.

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead our information retrieval team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building and leading high-performance teams with a focus on developing advanced search systems. This role requires a strong background in information retrieval, cloud-based solutions, and microservice architecture. As a key player in our team, you will be responsible for making architectural decisions, driving the technical direction of projects, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Design and implement scalable, cloud-based solutions on AWS, with a focus on microservice architecture.
• Develop and optimize search-related features and architectures, ensuring high performance and accuracy.
• Make informed architectural decisions and guide the team in best practices for software development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, impactful products.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively incorporate them into our projects.

Skillset:

• Strong understanding of information retrieval principles and proactive in building next-generation search solutions.
• Experience in developing modern ads ranking/retrieval/targeting systems and recommender systems.
• Experience with microservice architecture and cloud-based solutions (AWS).
• Familiarity with search-oriented tooling and technologies.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, constantly evolving product environment.
• Experience in building high-load distributed systems or data processing pipelines.
• Experience with machine learning workloads on distributed systems is a plus.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields.
• 7+ years of professional experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading cross-functional team.
• Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms.
• Proficiency in C#, .Net or Go.
• Experience with microservice architecture.
• Business acumen and excellent problem-solving, project management, and analytical skills.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and vector databases (Qdrant, Milvus, etc.).

About Company Statement:

Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. (https://accuristech.com/) 

Our mission: build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables STEM professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world’s most complex problems.