Backend Engineer Content Engineering

Job description

At Skroutz, our mission is simple: we aim to amaze. From our humble beginnings back in 2005, we believe that happy customers equal happy merchants and it’s our job to understand and anticipate their needs and offer them an unparalleled, doubt-free experience.

Our vision is clear: we aspire to simplify shopping, creating a trusted platform where millions discover and fulfill their online shopping needs easily and safely.

Whether you’re looking for a new smartphone, restocking your pantry with essentials, seeking the perfect outfit for an upcoming event, or simply hunting for that collectible gaming console, Skroutz is your trusted partner for seamless shopping experiences.

And our ambitions extend far beyond Greece’s borders. We’re on a trajectory to become one of Europe’s fastest-growing Marketplaces, with exciting expansions already underway in Cyprus and the Balkans. Our commitment to customer satisfaction remains paramount, guiding every decision we make.

To achieve our vision, we seek individuals who share our passion for e-commerce and technology. If you’re driven by the desire to create extraordinary shopping moments for our users, as well as help sellers all around the world grow their businesses, then we want you on our team.

Join us at Skroutz and be part of a journey that’s reshaping the way we shop online. Together, let’s turn everyday moments into remarkable experiences.

Ready for the challenge?

#AimToAmaze #Skroutz20

Our engineering values

• 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, NewRelic and Grafana for monitoring. Generally we try to pick the best tool we know or we can find that serves our needs.

How will you contribute to Skroutz vision

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 team.

What you will be doing

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• For all New Skroutz Fathers we offer 30 working days paternity leave (1,5 months in total)

• Monthly childcare allowance for all Skroutz Parents

• When at the office, we offer free food catering (breakfast & lunch)

• Free Skroutz Plus subscription

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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