Backend Engineer - Discovery (BD 0421)
Skroutz S.A, Greece
Job Description
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.
The Discovery team is responsible for shaping the product discovery experience for all users. We help users navigate and filter through millions of products in thousands of categories and assist them in figuring out how their specific needs will be met. To be successful, we have to translate the optimal user experience to a technological product, designing and implementing multiple experiments along the way. Our systems must be fast and reliable, often supporting more than 100k requests per minute.
We are looking for Software Engineers with a strong technical background and interest in building successful products and systems. You will be part of a small, talented and motivated team, tackle hard problems and improve the experience of millions of customers.
Examples of work you might undertake
- Create the infrastructure to support the specific UX needs of each product category, whether it is fashion, home furniture or technology
- Assist in the development of an excellent book shopping experience
- Implement and maintain the best product reviewing system in the industry
- Create or improve complex product filtering mechanisms such as sizes or colours
- Run experiments and track several metrics to measure success
- Maintain a software stack that serves millions of requests per day
Requirements
Your skills and experience
- Solid algorithmic and software engineering background
- Solid understanding of web architecture
- Very good 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
- Passion for readable, maintainable, testable, scalable and performant code
- Ability to navigate around a relatively large existing codebase and cooperatively improve it through code reviews
- Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and a CI workflow
- 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 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
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