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Principal Search Engineer (f/m/d) at Delivery Hero SE (Berlin, Germany)
Posted: 377 days ago
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We are looking for a Principal Search Engineer (f/m/d) to help us deliver an amazing search experience in more than 45 countries and 25 languages. We power 50M+ searches per day across 4 continents, with local Elasticsearch clusters on top of Kubernetes. You will be driving relevance and focusing on getting high-quality results by using state of the art technology in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning.
If you're an experienced Search Engineer, a creative problem solver who is eager to deliver solutions and hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!
Your mission:
Champion best practices and new approaches in our approach to information retrieval
Mentor other search engineers
Develop scalable solutions which power the Delivery Hero Search engine
Use data to improve findability, ranking and relevance
Better understand customer searches and use data to drive improvements
Stay up to date with latest developments in information retrieval, and implement novel approaches
Work with structured and semi-structured data from different data sources (BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Spark and many more)
Contribute and make an impact in a global, fast-moving tech organization
Your heroic skills
You have experience in building search engines
Experience with Elasticsearch, Solr or Lucene
Experience in designing Elasticsearch indexes
You can write maintainable code that follows best practices in software engineering
Experience with Java
Experience with working on data pipelines
A great team player and a pragmatic thinker
Fluency in English
Nice to have
Experience with designing language-specific analyzers
Experience with ecommerce search
Experience with building offline-evaluation tools
Knowledge of LTR approaches and different ranking quality metrics
Experience with building autocomplete features based on user searches and interactions
Experience with designing and building data pipelines and orchestrating them with Apache Airflow
Why Delivery Hero?
Exchange ideas and meet fellow developers in our active guilds and through our global tech & product community
We offer visa & relocation support globally to our permanent employees
Enjoy our free online yoga classes and a subsidized Urban Sports Club or Gympass membership
Take care of your mental and emotional well-being with our free Headspace subscription and unlimited access to our Employee Assistance Program
Participate in our health campaigns such as seasonal flu vaccines
Benefit from BVG subsidy or join our Bike rental program
Join the global market leader and a publicly listed company with a competitive remuneration package
Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external trainings
Access our e-learning platform MyAcademy and participate in our various inhouse trainings, including German learning options
Save responsibly with our attractive corporate pension options
Join company parties, team, cultural and sports events - due to the current situation on a virtual basis
Have we caught your attention? If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values and People Leadership Principles, please send us your CV.
We’re looking forward to your application!
About us:
Learn more about our diverse stack and what our teams are working on by visiting our Tech & Product blog and our Tech Talk Youtube channel.
Delivery Hero is building the next generation global on-demand delivery platform. We have grown rapidly from inception in 2011 to become one of the leading global online food ordering and delivery platforms and are now innovating and creating new services such as groceries, pharmacies, and other convenience articles in multiple markets.
Our awesome international team already operates in 40+ countries worldwide and we are looking for the most talented people to join us on our mission to ‘always deliver an amazing experience.
At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and representation is key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or any other aspect that makes you, you.
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