Search Engineer (All genders)
Job Description
We are on the lookout for a Search Engineer (all genders) to join Delivery Hero on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.
Search is a crucial part of Delivery Hero’s mission to always deliver an amazing experience- fast, easy and to your door.
Search teams are responsible for powering search experience in more than 60 countries and 35 languages, enabling 80M+ searches each day across 4 continents.
Our data informed culture helps us continuously improve and provide a high quality search experience to our diverse set of users.
As an Engineer, you will be focused on improving the search experience for our users. You will be obsessed with making search results relevant so that users are able to find their favourite cuisine and items easily and faster.
Some problems we are working on in the search domain :
How do we improve the ranking of search results?
What is the intent of the user’s search query?
How do we reduce the zero result rate for our user’s search queries?
How to make search results and search suggestions relevant to our users?
and many more such questions...
Responsibilities :
Make the search experience frictionless for our users
Design and implement cutting-edge search applications, which will transform the food and grocery delivery industry
Collaborate with engineers, data scientist, analysts, and product in a cross-functional team to solve search problems
Develop multi-vertical and multi-language scalable and reliable search service used across more than 60 countries and 35 languages
Build and maintain world-class, high traffic services and APIs in a team of experienced software engineers
Practice modern software development methodologies such as continuous delivery, TDD and scrum
Qualifications
or degree in computer science, information systems or other related fields
Experience working with Elasticsearch / Solr / Lucene, and has experience building scalable information retrieval systems
Good understanding of search relevance. Experience in improving search relevance using text and semantic matching algorithms and NLP techniques
Experience with building up low-latency scalable software systems
Extensive knowledge and working experience with Java Frameworks
Solid experience in the design and implementation of APIs and design patterns
Development and co-ownership of applications used by millions of users
Curiosity, creative outside-the-box problem solving abilities and an eye for details
You build it, you run it!" mentality along with full ownership of the developed applications
3+ years of experience