Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking (all genders)
About You SE & Co. KG2 months ago
Hamburg, Germany or Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Develop smart product-stream sorting and ranking features using user signals.
- Build and enhance high-traffic APIs with minimal latency.
- Manage large data volumes using Google BigQuery and integrate with business intelligence systems and the data platform.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and analysts to improve existing functionality and launch new features.
- Take deep ownership of the product and propose and implement improvement ideas.
- Maintain efficient, well-structured, and maintainable code while raising the quality of the codebase.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building scalable APIs, for example with Node.js, Python, or Go.
- Recent practical experience with a typed programming language such as TypeScript.
- Strong knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working in an English-speaking and agile environment.
- Ability to take ownership of a product and drive improvement initiatives.
- Preferred experience with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions such as Datadog.
- Preferred hands-on experience with AWS or GCP and orchestration services such as Dagster or Airflow.
- Preferred experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
- Preferred experience building data models with dbt.
- Preferred experience running data-processing pipelines with distributed data-processing frameworks.
- Experience with machine-learning models or LLM-based systems is a plus.
Benefits
- Inclusive workplace emphasizing acceptance, inclusion, and diverse perspectives.
- Flat organizational structure, rapid decision-making, and room for contribution and growth.
- Opportunities to explore new technologies and methodologies, including machine learning and generative AI.
- Online application process through the career page.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSDatadogdbtElasticsearchGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformNode.jsPythonSQLTypeScript
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