Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Product, Partners Platform (0621)
Skroutz S.A, Greece
Job Description
At Skroutz, we have a vision to make everyone's life better by creating 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.
Today we are going through one of the most exciting times for Skroutz. We are rapidly transitioning to a marketplace model, we constantly invest in technology and innovation and we acquired MyJobNow Delivery to enter in the last mile market.
We firmly 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.
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. You can read more about what we have worked on our Engineering blog.
How will you contribute to Skroutz vision
We are looking for Senior BackendSoftware Engineers with a strong technical background and interest in building successful products and systems. You will be part of a small and yet huge, talented and motivated team (~140 engineers), tackle hard problems and improve the experience of millions of customers. You will be able to do all the above if you choose to join either our Content, Marketplace Services, Discovery, Growth or Partners Platform teams.
Requirements
- At least (5) years of working experience as a Software Engineer in a professional setting.
- Excellent knowledge of database systems (relational, document-based, etc).
- Solid algorithmic and software engineering background.
- Solid understanding of web architecture.
- Intrigued by the product as much as by the technology.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent 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 like to work at Skroutz?
- A great opportunity to contribute to the evolution of Skroutz towards becoming a Marketplace
- Being part of an environment that gives employees large goals, autonomy and mentoring, which creates incredible opportunities, both for you and the company
- Competitive full time salary
- Ongoing training and development
- Private Medical plan
- Top of the Line tools and equipment
- Access to books, online courses and relevant resources
- Flexible remote working
- Extra paid time off
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Skroutz is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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