At Skroutz, we have a vision to make everyone's life better by building the most trustworthy, trouble-free, and easy to use online discovery and shopping experience. We want to provide this experience not only to our users and partners, but also to our team members.
We believe that people drive our business forward and we strive daily to build a powerful team that shares the same passion and enthusiasm for eCommerce and technology.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for Software Engineers with a strong technical background and a get-things-done attitude who are eager to learn new exciting technologies to join our Content.
Examples of work you might undertake
- Optimize our product categorization and clustering pipelines, used to classify over 30k new products daily.
- Improve the extraction of product attributes (e.g. brand, color, model number) from product titles, descriptions or other semi-structured data.
- Develop our content management system (codenamed "Earth"), used to maintain specs, descriptions and media for over 10M products.
- Work on product sizes detection and conversions across 150+ fashion categories, enabling filters and size guides on the Skroutz platform.
- Help automate any time-consuming manual procedure that a machine can perform more efficiently.
Requirements
Your Skills and Experience
- At least (1) year of working experience as a Software Engineer in a professional setting
- A solid CS background
- Intrigued by the product as much as by the technology
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills and team spirit
We will appreciate if you have
- Good knowledge of Ruby/Ruby on Rails is a huge plus
- Solid understanding of web architecture
- Strong knowledge of database systems (relational, document-based, etc)
- Familiarity with OOP principles and design patterns
- Comfort with TDD and other testing practices
- Exposure to architectural patterns and the production system of a large, performance-intensive web application
- Contributed to open-source projects
- Shareable open source contributions or personal projects which will help us in the evaluation process
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 evolving into a Marketplace.
Our engineering values
- Know your Tech. Develop and master your craft, sharpen your tools. Be proud of your work.
- Release early amp; 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 amp; tidy things up.
- Be a team player. Offer your help, listen and seek to understand. Step up amp; 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, NewRelic and Grafana for monitoring. Generally we try to pick the best tool we know or we can find that serves our needs.
What we offer
- Smart Workplace
- Ongoing training
- Solid Development path
- Private medical plan
- Breakfast, subsidized lunch (optional), soft drinks, snacks, fruits
- Equipment
- Access to technical books, online courses and relevant resources
- Extra paid time off
- Flexible remote working
Disclaimer:
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