Emma Moore

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Software Engineer at HSBC · Search and ranking · Python, Lucene

HSBC
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
2+ years experience
University College Dublin
English, Mandarin
Open to work
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Overview

2 years in software engineering, the last 2 at HSBC, where I work on the search team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 3. Most at home with Lucene and Elasticsearch.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in search and ranking
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
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Skills
ElasticsearchA/B testinglearning to rankScalaLucenePython
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Software Engineer roles in payments - London or remote

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
E-commerce, Consumer apps
Work mode
On-site
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the UK
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Lucene with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

2 years in search and ranking. Strongest at Elasticsearch and Python. Available from next month.

London, UKa/b testingelasticsearchlucene
Open

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Apr 2025 - Present
    HSBC · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 2.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 12 a week to 3.
    • Moved 84% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University College Dublin
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2020 - 2023

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