SEEKING FREELANCER
Location: Columbia, Missouri (or Remote)
Who we are
DocumentCloud (<a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/home" >http://www.documentcloud.org/home</a> ) is a web based platform allowing journalists to upload, analyze, annotate, and publish primary source documents. We want give journalists the tools to show their audience their source material, not just tell them about it. In addition to the newsrooms worldwide who use DocumentCloud, our open source software projects (see: <a href="http://github.com/documentcloud" >http://github.com/documentcloud</a> ), such as Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Docsplit, and Jammit, are relied upon by companies such as LinkedIn, Walmart, Foursquare and more. DocumentCloud is run by Investigative Reporters &#38; Editors (<a href="http://ire.org" >http://ire.org</a> ).
DocumentCloud is looking for a freelancer who has experience working with solr and the JVM to assist us with scaling up our search index prior to DocumentCloud going international.
If you've got experience working with full text search indexes with millions of records (and possibly heavy duty faceting) please drop us a line at: REDACTED_EMAIL