Software Engineering Manager

IAC’s family of websites is one of the largest in the world, comprised of more than 150 brands and products.

IAC is a leading media and Internet company comprised of some of the world’s most recognized brands and products, such as HomeAdvisor, Vimeo, About.com, Dictionary.com, The Daily Beast, Investopedia, and Match Group’s online dating portfolio, which includes Match, OkCupid and Tinder. "

Ask.com is seeking qualified candidates for the Software Engineering Manager role to work with the Search Intelligence team at our Oakland, CA location. The Search Intelligence team has developed core technologies such as Related Search, Search Suggestions, Query Classification, Question Generation etc. The Manager will lead the development team to develop our next generation search technologies. It’s an exciting and challenging mission with the issues such as learning the user intention, understanding the web data, question generation, analyzing user logs etc. You will be working with a highly talented team of engineers using latest technologies and frameworks such as Apache SOLR, Hadoop, HBase, Redis to solve various problems.

The Role We are looking for a leader who can work with business stakeholders within all our Ask business units, and manage a diverse technology team to -

• To develop high performance and scalable systems.
• Refine and reform our Search products for better user experience and engagement.
• Actively participate in exploring key opportunities for next generation search technologies, develop quick prototypes to demonstrate the product.
• Create and manage team’s roadmap, execute project plans with multiple teams in support of business goals

You have 2+ years of experience in creating and managing a highly technical engineering team or 4+ years of experience as a technical lead of a small to medium sized team. You are driven, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment. You can conceptualize, analyze and explain complex/abstract problems to diverse audience. You have a Masters Degree in CS or equivalent from accredited universities.

Your Skills

• Ability to design high performance, reliable and scalable production systems
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Strong object oriented concepts and core Java knowledge
• Strong knowledge of Unix shell usage, tools, and scripting (bash)
• Solid understanding of core computer science fundamentals, high performance data structures and algorithms
• Experience with Hadoop technologies – HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig
• Experience designing and evaluating heuristics to deal with natural language a huge plus
• Experience with machine learning methods is a huge plus
• Experience with SOLR/Lucene is a big plus.
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as HBase, Redis is a big plus.