Search Engineer - IntelliScript (Remote)

What We Do

Milliman IntelliScript is a group of a few hundred experts in fields ranging from actuarial science to information technology to clinical practice. Together, we develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance, health IT and life sciences clients. We are a business unit within Milliman, Inc., a respected consultancy with offices around the world.

Candidates who have their pick of jobs are drawn to IntelliScript's entrepreneurial and collaborative culture of innovation, excellence, exceptional customer service, balance, and transparency. Every single person has a voice in our company, and we challenge each other to push the outer limits of our full, diverse potential. And, we've shown sustained growth that ensures you'll have room to grow your skillset, responsibilities, and career.

Our team is smart, down-to-earth, and ready to listen to your best ideas. We reward excellence and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Visit our LinkedIn page for a closer look at our company, and learn more about our cultural values here.

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What this position entails

IntelliScript's Information Technology has been a key part of our success and is critical to our future. In this position, you will have responsibility for shaping the ongoing development and enhancement of IntelliScript's industry-leading software. You will be asked to assume duties that include advanced usage of search technologies such as Open/Elasticsearch and how to transform, load, scale, and expose data to our various services and products for search-based use cases. We are looking for candidates with the ability to consolidate varying data sources and provide searching capabilities that enhance our products using geographic queries, person matching logic, fuzzy matching logic, AI-enhanced queries, and other cutting-edge search technologies. You will be expected to anticipate team efforts across product boundaries and provide guidance when your work may add value to other areas of the enterprise.

What you will be doing

• Expose data searching capabilities to both front and back-end applications
• Implement new search technologies to provide the best customer experience possible by improving hit rates and the overall quality of results
• Seek ways of improving our existing search infrastructure
• Continuously optimize and tune queries and indexes and scale environments to efficiently handle evolving requirements
• Implement and monitor tools to keep track of search systems health, query latency, and resource utilization

What we need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience specializing in search technologies
• Strong experience with Open/Elasticsearch including Query DSL, indexes, streaming data, full-text search, filtering, aggregating, synonyms, and analyzers
• Experience handling large quantities of application logging data
• Strong hands-on programming experience in modern object-oriented languages, an understanding of microservice architecture, and familiarity with core AWS technologies
• Experience with scripting languages such as python and JavaScript using node.js
• Ability to create and consume RESTful APIs
• Advanced experience with relational databases such as RDS and MySQL including querying, indexing, and moving data to/from relational sources
• Experience applying advanced pattern matching and searching algorithms for efficient and accurate text searching

What you bring to the table

• Proactive and positive approach to solving problems and correcting issues
• Facilitate collaboration among team members
• Demonstrated "let's find a way to do it" attitude - no task is too big or too small, always willing to pitch in and help someone else
• Professional when interacting with clients and colleagues
• Detail oriented
• Welcomes increased responsibility over time
• Loves to learn, takes every opportunity they're given to develop knowledge and skills
• Adapts to an established process, able to move projects along in a timeframe

Wish list

• Continued education and/or advanced degree(s)
• Experience working in healthcare IT and environments subject to HIPAA regulations
• Familiarity with tools that help ingest, process, and transform data before sending it to OpenSearch such as Filebeat, Logstash, and the Cloudwatch SDK/API
• AWS certifications and/or experience with advanced AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, ECS/Fargate, and API Gateway
• Exposure to Java technologies such as Spring Boot, Hibernate, Gradle, and Liquibase

Location

This position is open to remote work. Applicants must be willing to travel to the Milliman office in Brookfield, WI for quarterly PI Planning meetings and one annual company meeting.

The expected application deadline for this job is June 15, 2025.

Compensation

The overall salary range for this role is $117,500 - $232,680. For candidates residing in:

• Alaska, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, or the District of Columbia the salary range is $129,250 - $213,290.
• New York City, Newark, San Jose, or San Francisco the salary range is $141,000 - $232,680.
• All other locations the salary range is $117,500 - $193,900.

A combination of factors will be considered, including, but not limited to, education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, etc.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support employees' health, financial security, and well-being. Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental and Vision - Coverage for employees, dependents, and domestic partners.
• Assistance Program (EAP) - Confidential support for personal and work-related challenges.
• 401(k) Plan - Includes a company matching program and profit-sharing contributions.
• Discretionary Bonus Program - Recognizing employee contributions.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Pre-tax savings for dependent care, transportation, and eligible medical expenses.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) - Begins accruing on the first day of work. Full-time employees accrue 15 days per year, and employees working less than full-time accrue PTO on a prorated basis.
• Holidays - A minimum of 10 observed holidays per year
• Family Building Benefits - Includes adoption and fertility assistance.
• Paid Parental Leave - Up to 12 weeks of paid leave for employees who meet eligibility criteria.
• Life Insurance & AD&D - 100% of premiums covered by Milliman.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability - Fully paid by Milliman.

Equal Opportunity

Milliman is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, age, or any other characteristic protected by the law.