Backend Engineer - Search Engine (all genders)
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Backend Engineer - Search Engine (all genders)
Location: Hybrid | Hamburg or Berlin, Germany
About the Position
Our mission is to digitize the classic shopping stroll, turning it into a personalized, inspiring experience for every customer. Technology and data sit at the center of everything we build. We are not a fashion company with a tech team on the side. Tech drives our product, our strategy, and our growth.
Our proprietary tech stack powers our own shops and SCAYLE, our commerce infrastructure solution that serves over 350 brands globally. Same foundation, bigger stage. The challenges keep things interesting.
Responsibilities
- Develop a cutting-edge Search Engine utilizing Node.js with TypeScript
- Manage extensive data volumes efficiently, employing Google BigQuery and integrating seamlessly with Business Intelligence systems and our data platform
- Build and enhance high-traffic APIs, ensuring minimal latencies
- Collaborate closely with seasoned developers, product managers, QA experts, and analysts to enhance current functionalities and launch novel features
- Draft architectural decisions together with our Tech Lead and explore new technologies
Requirements
- 3+ years working experience in Backend
- 2+ years experience in building scalable APIs (e.g. using Node.js, Python or Go)
- Practical & recent experience with a typed programming language (e.g. TypeScript)
- Solid know-how in working with SQL or No-SQL databases
- You write well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the code base in check
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- You are used to working in an English-speaking and agile environment
- You raise the bar of the software you work on
- You enjoy investigating the 'why' behind specific search outcomes and translating those findings into actionable technical enhancements
Nice to Have
- Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
- Experience building Data Models using dbt
- Experience in working with a MPP data warehouse (e.g. Redshift, BigQuery)
- Experience with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (Datadog)
- Hands-on experience with a cloud ecosystem (e.g. AWS, GCP) and integration with orchestration services (like Dagster or Airflow)
- Experience of running data processing pipelines using distributed data processing frameworks
- Hands-on Experience with Machine Learning Models or LLM-based systems is a plus
Salary Range
70k - 85k €
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid work model
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are. Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter. What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.
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ABOUT YOU is one of the fastest growing eCommerce companies in Europe and Hamburg’s first unicorn with a value of more than USD 1 billion. Our newest product the ABOUT YOU CLOUD a Infrastructure for High Scale eCommerce; ABOUT YOU CLOUD is an api based and enterprise ready infrastructure solution. Designed for ambitious eCommerce companies with +100m revenue.As a fashion and technology corporation, along with our strong team, our ambition is to digitalize the classic shopping stroll by creating an inspiring and personalized shopping experience on the smartphone. This is why we created ABOUT YOU, a shopping destination where people can discover fashion that really fits their personality from a range of more than 1.200 brands. With its consistent focus on personalization, inspiration and mobile shopping, ABOUT YOU has created sales in excess of €461 million in the fifth fiscal year 2018/19 and is now one of the largest fashion e-tailers in Germany.5 years old — 7 markets in 4 years 461 million EUR revenue in fiscal year 2018/19 > 1 billion USD company value > 500 employees from over 30 nationalitiesShort Video about us:www.youtube.com/... _continue=1&v=acYbrTxdZtIaboutyou.com&cloud.aboutyou.com
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