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
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 initiative.
- Don’t over- anything. Don’t over-engineer, over-analyze, over-regulate, you get it.
- Enjoy your work. Celebrate success.
Technologies we use
Skroutz is powered by a complex Ruby on Rails application interacting with multiple auxiliary services. Much like our product, our infrastructure stack is under constant development and currently undergoing a full modernization and migration to the Cloud (AWS).
Our infrastructure is primarily composed of the following core products and technologies:
- A wide variety of AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambdas).
- Cloudflare as the CDN solution of our choice; also helps us with WAF, DNS, ZeroTrust, and Video Streaming.
- Several FLOSS components for our on-premises infrastructure (Debian, HAProxy, Varnish, Nginx, Docker).
- Various database technologies including MariaDB, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Redis
- Apache Kafka as our core data pipeline and Resque for application async job processing
- Github for our main development platform and Github Workflows for managing our CI/CD pipelines.
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Cloudwatch and Datadog for observability.
- Several in-house services written mainly in Ruby, Python and Go.
What’s it like to work at Skroutz?
We are seeking Software Engineers to join our Payments team. The ideal candidates will bring a strong technical background and proven track record of building scalable systems. We value engineers who demonstrate a proactive “get-things-done” attitude, maintain a passion for delivering high-quality solutions, and show genuine enthusiasm for learning and mastering new technologies. You’ll help architect and develop robust, resilient payment systems that can scale with our company’s rapid growth.
What you will be doing
Maintain and implement parts of the payment infrastructure in order to increase performance, robustness and visibility.
Create monitoring and auditing tools to facilitate troubleshooting payment transactions and detecting/mitigating fraud incidents
Integrate with third party APIs
Provide tools to our support agents that are going to help with payment related tickets
Maintain and extend the existing integration with our ERP
At least (5) years 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.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication skills and team spirit.
We would appreciate it if you have
- Good knowledge of Ruby/Ruby on Rails is a huge plus.
- Solid understanding of web architecture.
- Experience with the payments domain
- 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.
What’s it like to work at Skroutz?
- 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
- 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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