Lead Development Manager (Remote)
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $120k-180k🇺🇸 USA
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Skroutz·19 days ago
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 become the Everyday App, the go-to destination where millions fulfill their online shopping needs. 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
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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. You can read more about what we have worked on our Engineering blog.
How will you contribute to Skroutz vision
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.
We are looking for a software engineer with a strong technical background and interest in building successful products and systems. You will be part of a talented and motivated team, tackle hard problems and improve the experience of millions of users. Our most recent challenges regard ranking, personalization, performance, and the integration of ML models in the search engine.
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What’s it like to work at Skroutz?
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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