Mid-Senior Scala back-end Engineer

Salary Competitive

As part of our engineering team you will be responsible for building our product, an advanced machine learning algorithm within search personalization for e-commerce. As demand for our product continues to increase, we are on a journey to grow the team substantially in 2019. We’d love for you to join us.

About the role:

You will be part of a small team that moves fast and iterates. We do weekly sprints, code reviews, testing, and put a lot of emphasis on code style, cleanliness and robustness. You will get to work with amazing engineers specializing in machine learning and distributed systems.

Your responsibilities include:

Managing and improving Findify’s data pipelines - a crucial responsibility for us as Findify collects millions of data points every day to feed our machine learning algorithms
Enhancing some of the critical components of our system to successfully integrate our customers’ products and improve our search capabilities
Actively contributing to the overall design of our infrastructure and the application of our product vision

About you:

You are a creative problem-solver with passion for programming and building scalable architectures.

You are:

Initiative-taking; you are self-motivated, a doer, and can drive projects from start to finish
A team-player; you are comfortable working with different styles and believe (like us) that together we achieve much more than alone
Driven; working hard to achieve a goal you care about and running several projects in parallel is no stranger to you
A great communicator; you are comfortable in communicating in English both written and oral, including explaining your technical development to internal and external partners
Located within time zone CET +/-2

You have:

A BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related technical discipline
At least 3 years of Scala work experience
Experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
Familiarity with Akka Stream, Akka HTTP or Flink
Experience with Git
Working knowledge with Linux/Unix

We’d be extra impressed if you also have:

Experience with AWS / key-value databases such as Cassandra / data-mining / machine learning / search frameworks such as Lucene / e-commerce platforms
Dev-ops skills
Experience in working in/with remote teams
Experience in working in agile/lean methodologies
A side project or blog that showcases your passion

We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better products we build and the better we are able to serve our customers. Women and other minorities under-represented in tech are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Findify helps online shops unlock the power of AI to grow their business. Our advanced Machine Learning engine ensures that shoppers find what they are looking for, helping stores deliver a better shopping experience. These smart personalization capabilities were until now only available to e-commerce giants like Amazon – we take pride in making them accessible to small businesses with large ambitions. Join us in taking AI in e-commerce to the next levelWe were founded in Stockholm in 2014 by a multinational team of four co-founders. We have since evolved and now operate from a main office in Stockholm as well as multiple remote locations around the globe – including San-Diego, Berlin and Moscow. Our strong values and sense of community have been the key to our success – we now serve over 1500 stores in more than 50 countries. We have ambitious plans for the coming year: we plan to triple our business and double our organization. We’d love for you to join us on this journey.We are a team of passionate individuals working together for the same goal – to build the next generation of personalization AI in e-commerce. Even though we’re not a start-up anymore, it’s really important to us to preserve that part of our culture – the part where everyone’s contribution makes an impact on the final result, where we are all accountable and where we work creatively and collaboratively to solve whatever problem comes up. Most importantly, as we grow, it’s important us to maintain our high levels of energy, passion and drive.

Perks and benefits

Working at Findify

Working at
Findify