Tech Lead Engineer - Partners Platform (TLP 0421)
Skroutz S.A, Greece

At Skroutz, we have a vision to make everyone's life better by continuously improving the eCommerce experience in Greece. We are shifting our focus from the discovery phase as a price comparison platform, to the last mile delivery supporting both our consumers and partners at any stage of their journey to success.
We believe that people drive our business forward and we strive daily to build a powerful team with people that share the same passion and enthusiasm for eCommerce and technology.

We are looking for a Tech Lead Engineer with strong technical knowledge and experience in large scale applications. You will be leading a team of engineers to tackle hard problems, scale our systems and build the next-generation services that will expand the Skroutz ecosystem. Your main responsibility will be the team’s technical output.

The Partners Platform group at Skroutz is committed to offering trouble-free and seamless eCommerce experience to 8500 (and counting) merchants with over 5 Million products to grow their online or offline business.
We are organized in small, talented and fully fledged teams. Backend and Frontend Engineers, Tech Leads, Designers and Product Managers work closely together to tackle hard problems efficiently and build a strong merchant value proposition with new features and services.

• Our main product Skroutz Merchants is a collection of tools, dashboards and services that help merchants in their day-to-day workflow to unlock the full potential of Skroutz platform.
• We have built our own Skroutz Analytics platform that aggregates eCommerce data from Skroutz partners’/shops’ websites and provides meaningful time series insights to merchants.
• We have developed our own efficient billing systems to meet our commercial needs, based on redirection traffic analysis (Cost Per Click) and order attribution (Cost Per Sale).
• Last but not least we provide a set of internal tools and automated processes alongside a well-integrated CRM to our beloved Commercial team helping them to support merchants at any stage of their journey to success.

• Lead and mentor a small and talented team of engineers, both frontend and backend.
• Coordinate with other tech leads and participate in hiring and onboarding of new members.
• Be responsible for technical aspects of the product: technology decisions and choices, architecture, priorities, velocity, general project management.
• Work with Product Managers to specify requirements and deliverables.
• Hold regular 1-on-1 meetings with the team members and guide them to growth and success.
• Maintain a software stack that serves millions of requests per day.

• Improve order management in Skroutz Merchants to streamline merchants’ workflow.
• Introduce new features and products to Skroutz users in order to boost merchant value proposition.
• Work on our Analytics platform which handles over 30 Million requests per day and its adjacent services.
• Boost our Marketplace service offerings to further expand our eCommerce solution for brick-and-mortar shops.
• Develop and maintain our in-house affiliate management system.
• Enhance our billing algorithms, develop monitoring tools and build fraud detection mechanisms.
• Improve our Merchants' support operations with new services and automated processes.

Requirements

What skills and experience you will need

• At least (5) years of working experience as a Software Engineer in a professional setting, designing and building high volume, scalable web applications.
• Solid algorithmic and software engineering background.
• Excellent understanding of web architecture.
• Excellent knowledge of at least one programming language. We work mostly in Ruby, but we believe that languages can be learned; we care much more about your general engineering skills.
• Very good knowledge and understanding of SQL and database systems.
• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and a CI workflow.
• Tech lead and people management experience.
• Passion for readable, maintainable, testable, scalable and performant code.
• Ability to navigate around a relatively large existing codebase and cooperatively improve it.
• Contribution to open source projects is huge plus.
• Team spirit and easy going attitude.

Benefits

What’s it like to work at Skroutz?

Skroutz is the leading eCommerce platform in Greece. At Skroutz we are committed to using modern software development to build top notch services and experiences. Our company operates Skroutz, a product discovery and price comparison engine that is evolving into a marketplace.

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