Senior Search Engineer

About The Opportunity

We are on the lookout for a Senior Search Engineer 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 experiences 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.

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 scientists, analysts, and product teams in a cross-functional team to solve search problems.
• Develop multi-vertical and multi-language scalable and reliable search services 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.

What You Need to Be Successful

• B.S or M.S. degree in computer science, information systems, or other related fields.
• Experience working with Elasticsearch/Solr/Lucene, and 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 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.

What's in it for You

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy.
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.
• Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: €1,000 Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support.
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts.

At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring—therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.