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    Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking (all genders)

    ABOUT YOU
    Hamburg or Berlin5 days ago
    Engineering
    Backend
    Senior

    Summary

    Senior Backend Engineer role at a company focused on product stream sortings and user signals. Requires strong Node.js, TypeScript, and SQL skills for building high-traffic APIs and managing data volumes. Opportunity to work with machine learning and generative AI in an agile, English-speaking environment.

    Location
    Hamburg or Berlin
    Type
    full-time
    Level
    Senior

    Company Description

     

      Job Description

      • Develop smart product-stream sortings incorporating user signals while utilizing NodeJS with TypeScript.
      • Manage extensive data volumes efficiently, employing Google BigQuery and integrating seamlessly with Business Intelligence systems and our data platform.
      • Build and enhance high-traffic APIs, ensuring minimal latencies.
      • Collaborate closely with seasoned engineers, product managers, data scientists, and analysts to enhance current functionalities and launch novel features.
      • Encouragement for innovative ideas and creations, a flat organizational structure, and rapid decision-making processes ensure ample room for contribution and growth.
      • Explore new technologies and methodologies, especially in the fields of machine learning and generative AI

      Qualifications

      • 5+ years experience in building scalable APIs (e.g. using node.js, Python or Go)
      • Practical & recent experience with a typed programming language (e.g. TypeScript)
      • Solid know how in working with SQL or No-SQL databases
      • You write well-structured, efficient and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the code base in check
      • You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
      • You are used to working in an English-speaking and agile environment
      • You raise the bar of the software you work on
      • You enjoy being responsible for a product, owning it deeply and as well push for own improvement ideas to work on within the team

      Nice to have

      • Experience with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (Datadog)
      • Hands-on experience with a cloud ecosystem (e.g. AWS, GCP) and integration with orchestration services (like Dagster or Airflow)
      • Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
      • Experience building Data Models using dbt
      • Experience of running data processing pipelines using distributed data processing frameworks
      • Hands-on Experience with Machine Learning Models or LLM-based systems is a plus

      Additional Information

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      Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking (all genders)

      ABOUT YOU · Hamburg or Berlin

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