Senior Developer Backend Search CD+E
Ubiminds
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Ubiminds is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Info on the Senior Developer - Backend/Search - CD+E (491) role
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Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their global teams. We curate top LATAM talent and connect professionals with long-term, high-impact opportunities while providing full employer-of-record support.
In this role, you'll join a team focused onmodernizing CI/CD pipelines and building systems, helping transform legacy processes into fast, reliable, and automated delivery workflows.
Challenge
We're looking for ahands-on Senior Developer - Backend/Search - CD+Ewho genuinely enjoys untangling legacy build pipelines and turning them into clean, scalable, and automated systems.
As a senior developer, You'll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our search infrastructure, handling technical escalations, and developing scalable search solutions for our video platform as well as developing and maintaining backend services, APIs and stored procedures.
The team:
You'll be part of a team of talented engineers with a variety of areas of expertise, from frontend to backend to full-stack. The team's experience level ranges from seasoned developers with years of experience to junior developers who are growing their roles and impact with your mentorship.
Mandatory Skills:
* 5+ years of backend development experience3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Solr, including:Schema design and configurationQuery optimization and performance tuningIndexing strategies and data ingestionFaceting, filtering, and search relevanceExperience with .NET/C# and SQL ServerStrong understanding of search algorithms, tokenization, and text analysisExperience with RESTful API developmentExcellent problem-solving and debugging skillsStrong written and verbal communication skills
* 5+ years of backend development experience
5+ years of backend development experience
* 3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Solr, including:
3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Solr, including:
* Schema design and configuration
Schema design and configuration
* Query optimization and performance tuning
Query optimization and performance tuning
* Indexing strategies and data ingestion
Indexing strategies and data ingestion
* Faceting, filtering, and search relevance
Faceting, filtering, and search relevance
* Experience with .NET/C# and SQL Server
Experience with .NET/C# and SQL Server
* Strong understanding of search algorithms, tokenization, and text analysis
Strong understanding of search algorithms, tokenization, and text analysis
* Experience with RESTful API development
Experience with RESTful API development
* Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to Have:
* Experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or other search enginesKnowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred)Experience with microservices architectureUnderstanding of internationalization and multi-language search
* Experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or other search engines
Experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or other search engines
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
* Experience with microservices architecture
Experience with microservices architecture
* Understanding of internationalization and multi-language search
Understanding of internationalization and multi-language search
Team & Environment:
- Distributed, international engineering team.
- Strong ownership culture - engineers drive solutions end to end.
- Focus on modernization, automation, and developer experience.
- High autonomy to propose and implement improvements.
- Collaborative environment with direct impact on engineering velocity.
About Ubiminds
Our Culture
People First.We are all about people!
Challenge yourself.There's always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.
Make it happen.Be ready to take challenges as they come. It's all about attitude and commitment.
We're in this together.We work as a team, thrive as a team, and evolve as a team.
Averaging on awesome.We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations.
Keep it real.We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.
Perks and Benefits
As aSenior Developer - Backend/Search - CD+E@Ubiminds, you:
- You are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
- Enjoy our remote-first policy - we are a distributed team, after all.
- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).
- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professi
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About Ubiminds
Ubiminds is a company in the software industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.