Ecommerce Search Engineer

At Skroutz, we're committed to delivering exceptional user experiences. Our goal is to become the go-to destination for seamless shopping journeys.

Our vision is clear: we aim to provide an unparalleled experience that sets us apart from others. We strive to be the everyday choice for millions of users, offering a range of products and services that cater to diverse needs.

As part of our journey, we seek talented individuals who share our passion for innovation and customer satisfaction. If you're driven by a desire to create extraordinary moments for our users, then we want you on our team.

Join us in shaping the future of e-commerce and technology. Together, let's turn everyday moments into remarkable experiences.

• Know your Tech. Develop and master your craft, sharpen your tools. Be proud of your work
• Release early & 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 & tidy things up
• Be a team player. Offer your help, listen and seek to understand. Step up & 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, DataDog and Grafana for monitoring. Generally we try to pick the best tool we know or we can find that serves our needs.

Search Team Mission

The Search team is responsible for every aspect of the search experience of Skroutz. Our mission is to help users formulate queries and discover the most relevant products efficiently. To be successful, we have to deal with natural language ambiguities and noisy user input. Our systems must be fast and reliable in order to serve millions of searches per day. At the same time, we are trying to improve our product in order to seamlessly support complex user needs.

Examples of work you might undertake:

1. Support queries in multiple languages. Understand greeklish, handle noisy and ambiguous input, and present the most useful results to the user. Try to capture the user's intention and reflect it in the results and their ordering.
2. Devise custom result scoring and ranking mechanisms based on various features
3. Develop and maintain sophisticated mechanisms to index millions of products
4. Develop innovative methods to present, navigate, and filter complex search results.
5. Create or improve features such as autocomplete and spelling corrections
6. Design, implement, and track metrics to measure the success of experiments.
7. Maintain, improve and refactor a software stack that serves millions of requests per day
8. Integrate new ML mechanisms into our main search infrastructure
9. Implement prototypes to evaluate new concepts and make sound decisions
10. Question, rethink and iterate on core elements of Skroutz's product

• Solid algorithmic and software engineering background with 4+ years of professional experience
• Excellent knowledge of at least one programming language. We work mostly with Ruby, but we believe that languages can be learned; we mostly care about your engineering skills
• Strong understanding and working experience with web development
• Good knowledge and understanding of SQL and relational databases
• Drive to deliver readable, maintainable, testable, scalable and performant code
• Ability to navigate around an existing codebase and cooperatively improve it through code reviews
• Easy-going attitude, good communication skills and team spirit

We Will Appreciate

• Working knowledge of text manipulation, and particularly familiarity with Elasticsearch and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Domain experience in one of the following fields: information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning techniques
• Experience with setting up statistically rigorous web experiments (such as A/B tests)
• Experience with modern MVC web frameworks, and an understanding of their architecture
• Experience with refactoring and improving pre-existing large, rapidly evolving codebases.
• Shareable open source contributions or personal projects

• A great opportunity to contribute to the evolution of Skroutz towards becoming one of Europe's fastest growing Marketplaces
• Thrive in an environment that champions ambitious goals, empowers autonomy, fosters mentoring, and unlocks exciting opportunities for both personal and business growth
• Competitive full-time salary
• Ongoing training and development
• Access to books, online courses, and relevant resources
• Top of the Line tools and equipment
• Private Medical Plan
• Hybrid Working
• Free gym membership at Golden Gym in Athens, plus OAKA cross training & running courses, Padel and online yoga
• When at the office, we offer free food catering (breakfast & lunch)
• For all New Skroutz Fathers we offer 30 working days paternity leave (1,5 months in total)
• Monthly childcare allowance for all Skroutz Parents
• Free Skroutz Plus subscription

Diversity and Inclusion

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.