[Hiring] Staff Search Engineer @Kaufland e-commerce

Role Description

As a Staff Search Engineer (all genders), your goal is to bring our search to the next level for our customers:

• Improving our relevance: Writing faster queries, improving data quality of ingested data, and making decisions on better vs. worse relevancy.
• Enriching our ingestion architecture: Consuming change events, updating Elasticsearch mappings and indexing into new fields.
• Efficient integration: Enhancing our stack through better mapping, faster retrieval of recently changed data, or adding fields.
• Data modelling: Understanding its implications and effects on indexing and querying.
• Performance enhancement: Keeping our search speed as fast as possible.
• Safety first: Designing with resiliency in mind in a microservice environment.

Our team tech stack consists of Kubernetes, gRPC, Typescript, the latest Node.js major version, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, and DataDog for monitoring.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience as a Search Engineer.
• Experience with a distributed search engine and one of the well-known search engines in the market.
• Skills to run, monitor, debug, and operate our Elasticsearch cluster and applications.
• Ability to provide tangible facts and figures, including A/B tests for validation.
• Curiosity about the latest developments in tech and the search space (semantic search, NLP, LLMs, vectors, hybrid search, machine learning).
• Desire to help others, share knowledge, and mentor.
• Willingness to go the extra mile for team success and provide honest feedback.
• Excellent written and spoken English skills.

Benefits

• Flexibility to choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or Berlin.
• Top deals for fitness, swimming, yoga, and more through Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios.
• Support for mental well-being with offerings such as Instahelp, a digital platform for online psychological counseling.
• 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity for a sabbatical after a certain period.
• Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers for tax-advantaged meal allowances.
• Subsidized train season ticket for more mobility with the ‘Deutschlandticket’.
• Monthly coupon for Kaufland.de as an employee discount.
• Choice of hardware: Mac or Lenovo.
• Access to online language learning programs, diverse in-house training, and automated 360-degree feedback.