Software Engineer - Java [T500-29898]

About Us:

Marriott International Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was founded in May 1927 by J. Willard Marriott and Alice S. Marriott with a modest nine-seat A&W root beer stand. Guided by the family's leadership and core principles, Marriott International today has grown into a global hospitality giant, operating approximately 10,000 properties and over 30 leading brands in more than 140 countries and territories.

From such humble beginnings to becoming the world’s largest hotel company, Marriott International has never stopped searching for inventive ways to serve its customers, provide opportunities for its associates, and grow their business. At Marriott Tech Accelerator center (MTA), Hyderabad, India, Marriott is exploring the world we live in and all its possibilities. At Marriott Tech Accelerator, we are a team of passionate engineering minds dedicated to creating and building cutting-edge solutions that streamline operations and elevate guest experiences.

Marriott Tech Accelerator is an ANSR entity incorporated exclusively for providing services to Marriott International.

Role Title: Software Engineer

Experience Range: 2-4 years

Work Location: Hyderabad, India

Work Mode: Hybrid

Position Summary:

Marriott has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer specializing in Search Engine technologies on the Enterprise Commerce Search team. This role focuses on building, tuning, and operating the enterprise search capabilities that power fast, relevant, and reliable discovery experiences across Marriott’s digital commerce channels.

We are looking for a Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in search technologies, including index design, query construction, analyzers, and relevance tuning on platforms such as Amazon OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, or Lucid works Fusion. The role also requires solid backend engineering skills in Java and Python using Spring WebFlux and FastAPI to expose search capabilities through scalable, production-ready services.

You will work closely with senior engineers, architects, product partners, QA, SRE, and dependent commerce teams to deliver secure, observable, and high-performing search solutions. The ideal candidate enjoys working with search relevance, indexing pipelines, query performance, distributed systems, and Agile engineering practices.

Job Responsibilities:

Technical Contributions & Collaboration:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain search capabilities for the Enterprise Commerce Search platform, including indexes, mappings, analyzers, and query templates.
• Build and enhance search APIs and event-driven integrations using Java with Spring WebFlux and Python with FastAPI.
• Implement query processing, filters, facets, autosuggestions, recommendations, multilingual and relevance-tuning enhancements.
• Develop and support indexing pipelines and data ingestion flows between source systems and enterprise search engines.
• Participate in code reviews, relevance reviews, technical discussions, troubleshooting, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Catalog, digital channels, QA, SRE, and platform engineering.

Delivering Technology:

• Translate business and functional requirements into effective search schemas, queries, and ranking behaviors.
• Build and enhance search APIs, indexing pipelines, data transformations, and platform integrations.
• Write unit and integration tests and support functional, relevance, performance, and regression testing.
• Participate in CI/CD deployments, index migrations, and reindexing activities across lower and production environments.
• Monitor search services, analyze query performance, logs, and distributed traces, and support timely resolution of defects and production issues.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and operational concerns and communicate them proactively.

IT Governance:

• Follow enterprise architecture, development, release, and operational governance standards.
• Apply secure coding practices and comply with API security, privacy, and data-protection requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation such as index and schema definitions, API specifications, design notes, deployment procedures, and runbooks.

Skills and Experience:

Search Technologies:

• 2–4 years of software development experience, with hands-on work on search technologies.
• Hands-on experience with a search platform such as Amazon OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, or Lucid works Fusion.
• Working knowledge of search indexes, mappings and schemas, analyzers, tokenizers, and query DSL construction.
• Experience with query tuning, filters, facets, sorting, pagination, synonyms, stop words, boosting, and relevance improvement.
• Experience building and supporting indexing pipelines, reindexing, and data transformation between source systems and search engines.

Backend & Microservices:

• Good proficiency in Java and Python, with working experience using Spring Web Flux and FastAPI to integrate with and expose Amazon OpenSearch and Apache Solr search capabilities.
• Experience developing, testing, and troubleshooting search features on OpenSearch and Solr, including query DSL, Solr request handlers, and search components.
• Working knowledge of OpenSearch and Solr cluster concepts such as shards, replicas, nodes, index aliases, SolrCloud collections, and ZooKeeper.
• Understanding of search features such as typeahead, recommendations, spell check, multilingual, and query rewriting.
• Experience analyzing search latency, timeouts, and throughput, and applying query, index, and cluster-level optimizations such as caching, deep pagination strategies, and shard sizing.

Cloud & DevOps:

• Hands-on experience with Amazon OpenSearch or Lucidworks Fusion (Solr), including cluster setup and index management.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with production monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, including logs, metrics, distributed traces, and search query performance analysis.

Commerce Engineering:

• Experience working with eCommerce, digital commerce, content discovery, or customer-facing search platforms is preferred.

Security & Quality:

• Knowledge of API security concepts such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, authentication, and authorization.
• Familiarity with OWASP guidance and secure coding standards.
• Experience with unit testing and mocking frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito, along with integration testing.
• Experience with API documentation and code-quality tools such as Swagger/OpenAPI and SonarQube.

General:

• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly, collaborate across teams, and work effectively with guidance from senior engineers.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and contributing to sprint planning, estimation, demos, and retrospectives.
• Curiosity and willingness to deepen expertise in search engine technologies, microservices, cloud technologies, and commerce platforms.

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.