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Junior Java Software Engineer (Search)

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
1 to 3 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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We are hiring a Junior Java Software Engineer who is passionate about technology, search, and solving real world problems for our online search products. Are you ready for a job where engineering, technical research, software developing and customer engagement in are all equally combined? Then join our team!

Many professionals require a good search experience in online products to work effectively and efficiently. Therefore, search technology plays a critical role in many Wolters Kluwer products. As a Junior Java Software Engineer within the Digital Experience Group (DXG), you are acting to deliver the best quality search experience to our business stakeholders. This includes understanding the business needs and guiding them to adopt our Search technology stack, proactively research opportunities to improve the Search technology stack, developing components and engineering end-to-end search solutions. In this process you will actively work with the rest of the search team and the business product owners.

Wolters Kluwer is all about creating top-notch online services for a variety of professional customers worldwide. Everything we do is driven by state-of-the-art software. The Wolters Kluwer Digital Experience Group (DXG) is assigned with the acceleration of the time-to-market and innovation rate of Wolters Kluwer businesses globally, by leveraging both local and centralized innovations across the company.

About the role

Wolters Kluwer is a fast-growing and innovation-driven global company that has successfully made a transition from print publishing to a digitally-driven provider of professional software, online expert content and integrated workflow products. Search technology plays a critical role in many Wolters Kluwer businesses whether research products, workflow solutions or internal systems for operational efficiency. The Junior Search Engineer is responsible for successful adoption and customization of the Search stack to support products globally across all four divisions of Wolters Kluwer: Legal & Regulatory, Tax and Accounting, Health and GRC.

You will grow your expertise of the Search domain, develop communication skills that bridge the technical development side with the functional customer side, continuously study possible improvements and be very creative in solving real world problems by applying existing and new advanced technologies including natural language processing and possibly machine learning.

You will develop multiple disciplines simultaneously, such as search technology knowledge, (java) development skills, business analysis skills and clear communication skills. All of this driven by a never ending amount of curiousness and willingness to learn.

Reporting into the Lead Technology Product Manager, this role is crucial to the continued growth and evolution of one of the leading companies providing expert solutions to the healthcare, compliance, legal and tax markets globally.

Your responsibilities

  • Act as highest level technical/multi-disciplinary expert in the area of search to the business stakeholders and DXG team.
  • Guide existing and new clients of the Search Service in successfully adopting the technology and maximize the value of those products by maximizing the quality of the search experience.
  • Develop new components in Java to augment the Search stack.
  • Have deep a technical insight and a drive to analyze and improve all factors that contribute to the quality of search. This includes: content processing, search engine configuration, query analysis, scoring algorithms, performance and stability. This also includes: stepping in the end-users’ shoes, understand their needs and what consequences this has for the back-end.
  • Understand and advise about the role and capabilities of search technologies inside a larger platform architecture and inside an ecosystem of loosely coupled services.
  • Deliver recommendations on design patterns around search based solutions, e.g. relevance tuning, linguistics, pre- and post-search filtering, content- and query processing, user-friendliness of the service, product specific testing, etc.
  • Understand and implement relevance models, including the fine tuning of search results through user behavior, linguistics, and the use of other search engine index and query capabilities
  • Write, test, document service-oriented applications in collaboration with onshore and offshore developers.
  • Have an broad understanding of the needs of multiple businesses and proactively try to meet those needs by looking for existing solutions or designing new re-usable solutions.
  • Assist with detailed implementation planning, project planning and project coordination in conjunction with the project manager, developing positive customer relationships (executive level and end user), creating a high level of customer satisfaction, and effective team management.
  • Continuously stay current on market trends and new technologies that can affect how we approach our solutions.
  • Up to 5% travel might be needed for this position.

Your profile

  • Graduate degree (MS or BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
  • Experience with software development in Java
  • Eager to learn a variety of skills related to the domain of Search
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to relay and simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences
  • Have a strong drive to analyze and solve technical issues
  • Have a strong drive to do research in the area of search and with respect to relevancy tuning
  • Experience developing production software using agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.)
  • Willing to learn about continuous integration, automation scripts, Git flow, containers
  • Willing to work in multi-disciplinary teams across technology and business

We offer

Wolters Kluwer, a fast growing, financially healthy and listed organization, offers you a full time job (36 hours) in an international and dynamic environment.

You will join our */dxg team in our head office in Alphen aan den Rijn and be part of a diverse, global workforce. We offer you a competitive salary, bonus, a laptop and smartphone to do your job, and a generous contribution to your pension. Furthermore, flexibility in working hours, the opportunity to work from home up to 3 days a week, outstanding international career opportunities and a great environment with fun and professional colleagues are also part of the package.

Did you know that we have been recognized as Dutch Top Employer for the sixth consecutive year and that we received recognition for our gender equality in 2021? For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.

IT
Alphen aan den Rijn
10,000 employees