Senior Software Engineer - Search (SSS 0126)
At Skroutz, our mission is simple: we aim to amaze. From our humble beginnings back in 2005, we believe that happy customers equal happy merchants and it’s our job to understand and anticipate their needs and offer them an unparalleled, doubt-free experience.
Our vision is clear: we aspire to become the Everyday App, the go-to destination where millions fulfill their online shopping needs. Whether you're looking for a new smartphone, restocking your pantry with essentials, seeking the perfect outfit for an upcoming event, or simply hunting for that collectible gaming console, Skroutz is your trusted partner for seamless shopping experiences.
And our ambitions extend far beyond Greece's borders. We're on a trajectory to become one of Europe's fastest-growing Marketplaces, with exciting expansions already underway in Cyprus and the Balkans. Our commitment to customer satisfaction remains paramount, guiding every decision we make.
To achieve our vision, we seek individuals who share our passion for e-commerce and technology. If you're driven by the desire to create extraordinary shopping moments for our users, as well as help sellers all around the world grow their businesses, then we want you on our team.
Join us at Skroutz and be part of a journey that's reshaping the way we shop online. Together, let's turn everyday moments into remarkable experiences.
Ready for the challenge?
#AimToAmaze
Our engineering values
- Know your Tech. Develop and master your craft, sharpen your tools. Be proud of your work
- Release early & Iterate. Deliver prototypes and start gathering important feedback early on. Use that feedback to guide you. Don't be afraid to compromise, make sure to come back & tidy things up
- Be a team player. Offer your help, listen and seek to understand. Step up & take initiatives
- Don't over anything. Don't over-engineer, over-analyze, over-regulate, you get it
- Enjoy your work. Celebrate success
Technologies we use
Our main stack is Ruby for the backend - using the Ruby on Rails framework - with Javascript (ES6) and React/Redux for the frontend. Our main storage is a MariaDB cluster. We heavily use Elasticsearch, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis and Memcached. We use Jenkins for our CI and various tools like Sentry, DataDog and Grafana for monitoring. Generally we try to pick the best tool we know or we can find that serves our needs. You can read more about what we have worked on our Engineering blog.
How will you contribute to Skroutz vision
The Search team is responsible for every aspect of the search experience of Skroutz. Our mission is to help users formulate queries and discover the most relevant products efficiently. To be successful, we have to deal with natural language ambiguities and noisy user input. Our systems must be fast and reliable in order to serve millions of searches per day. At the same time, we are trying to improve our product in order to seamlessly support complex user needs.
We are looking for a software engineer with a strong technical background and interest in building successful products and systems. You will be part of a talented and motivated team, tackle hard problems and improve the experience of millions of users. Our most recent challenges regard ranking, personalization, performance, and the integration of ML models in the search engine.
Examples of work you might undertake
- Support queries in multiple languages. Understand greeklish, handle noisy and ambiguous input, and present the most useful results to the user. Try to capture the user's intention and reflect it in the results and their ordering.
- Devise custom result scoring and ranking mechanisms based on various features
- Develop and maintain sophisticated mechanisms to index millions of products
- Develop innovative methods to present, navigate, and filter complex search results.
- Create or improve features such as autocomplete and spelling corrections
- Design, implement, and track metrics to measure the success of experiments.
- Maintain, improve and refactor a software stack that serves millions of requests per day
- Integrate new ML mechanisms into our main search infrastructure
- Implement prototypes to evaluate new concepts and make sound decisions
- Question, rethink and iterate on core elements of Skroutz’s product
Requirements
- Solid algorithmic and software engineering background with 4+ years of professional experience
- Excellent knowledge of at least one programming language. We work mostly with Ruby, but we believe that languages can be learned; we mostly care about your engineering skills
- Strong understanding and working experience with web development
- Good knowledge and understanding of SQL and relational databases
- Drive to deliver readable, maintainable, testable, scalable and performant code
- Ability to navigate around an existing codebase and cooperatively improve it through code reviews
- Easy-going attitude, good communication skills and team spirit
We will appreciate if you have
- Working knowledge of text manipulation, and particularly familiarity with Elasticsearch and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Domain experience in one of the following fields: information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning techniques
- Experience with setting up statistically rigorous web experiments (such as A/B tests)
- Experience with modern MVC web frameworks, and an understanding of their architecture
- Experience with refactoring and improving pre-existing large, rapidly evolving codebases.
- Shareable open source contributions or personal projects
Benefits
What’s it like to work at Skroutz?
- A great opportunity to contribute to the evolution of Skroutz towards becoming one of Europe’s fastest growing Marketplaces
- Thrive in an environment that champions ambitious goals, empowers autonomy, fosters mentoring, and unlocks exciting opportunities for both personal and business growth
- Competitive full-time salary
- Ongoing training and development
- Access to books, online courses, and relevant resources
- Top of the Line tools and equipment
- Private Medical Plan
- Hybrid Working
- Free gym membership at Golden Gym in Athens, plus OAKA cross training & running courses, Padel and online yoga
- When at the office, we offer free food catering (breakfast & lunch)
- For all New Skroutz Fathers we offer 30 working days paternity leave (1,5 months in total)
- Monthly childcare allowance for all Skroutz Parents
- Free Skroutz Plus subscription
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Skroutz is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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