Staff Search Engineer (all genders) | Elasticsearch

About the Position

Staff Search Engineer (all genders) | Elasticsearch

Remote oder Köln / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf / Berlin

Voll- oder Teilzeit

Festanstellung

About the Company

We are the tech powerhouse behind Kaufland’s international online marketplaces and a company within the Schwarz Group. Driven by a start-up mentality and working on an equal footing within flat hierarchies, we develop the best marketplace solutions for our customers, sellers, and partners. #FromEuropeForEurope

Our Tech & Product Team of about 400 experts aims to create the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. Through innovative technical developments, they not only create an outstanding shopping experience but also lay the foundation for an optimal selling experience for our sellers.

Responsibilities

• Bring our search to the next level for our customers
• Improve relevance by writing faster queries, improving data quality, and making informed decisions on relevancy
• Enrich our ingestion architecture by consuming change events, updating Elasticsearch mappings, and indexing into new fields
• Ensure efficient integration by enhancing mapping, faster retrieval of recently changed data, or adding a field
• Understand data modeling and its implications on indexing and querying
• Enhance performance to keep our search speed as fast as possible
• Prioritize safety and resiliency in a microservice environment by using circuit breakers, bulk heads, and caches judiciously
• Utilize our team tech stack consisting of Kubernetes, gRPC, Typescript, the latest Node.js major version, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, and DataDog for monitoring

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience as a Search Engineer
• Knowledge of how a (distributed) search engine works and experience with well-known search engines in the market
• Skills to run, monitor, debug, and operate our Elasticsearch cluster and applications
• Ability to write well-tested and reviewed code
• Tangible facts and figures to validate search features with A/B tests
• Curiosity about the latest developments in tech and the search space (semantic search, NLP, LLMs, vectors, hybrid search, machine learning)
• Desire to help others, share knowledge, and mentor others
• Willingness to go the extra mile to make the team successful
• Excellent written and spoken English skills

We Offer

• Flexible work-life balance: Choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or Berlin
• Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: Get top deals for fitness, swimming, yoga, and more
• Mental Well-Being: Support for your well-being journey with offerings such as Instahelp, the digital platform for online psychological counseling
• Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical
• Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Buy Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances
• Deutschlandticket: We subsidize your train season ticket for more mobility
• Employee Discount: Receive a monthly coupon for Kaufland.de
• Free choice of hardware: Mac or Lenovo, it's up to you
• Boost your growth: Benefit from our online language learning programs, diverse in-house training, and our automated 360-degree feedback
• Dynamic Culture: Our flat hierarchies, start-up mentality, international team, and the strength of the Schwarz Group provide an agile and secure working environment
• Team Players: Connect with your team and others through our digital onboarding journey, buddy program, and regular team and company events

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Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of skin color, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion, and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) – because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity. Read more here! When applying, you can optionally include your pronouns in your resume.

Why are you the perfect fit for this position?

Don't bother with cover letters - we're interested in facts and figures! Feel free to share your Github profile with us in your application.

As we have very international teams, we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.

We are looking forward to your application!

Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG

Postal address:

Habsburgerring 2

50674 Köln

Contact Person

Your contact person: Verena Schilmann