Back End Software Engineer - Search & Discovery

Schibsted Marketplaces is a brand new division within Schibsted, with offices in London, Stockholm, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Krakow and Oslo. Our philosophy is built on keeping an open mind, challenging ourselves, and the status quo. The goal is to shape the future of our industry. To achieve this we recruit attitude in addition to technical skills. If you are driven, ambitious, not afraid of challenges and thrive on finding new solutions, we want to hear from you. The overall mission of Marketplaces is to develop the common global product platforms and technology infrastructure necessary to create data and identity based ecosystems; empowering local entrepreneurs, delighting users, and driving Schibsted’s future growth. With over 250 million monthly active users under our belt, we’re able to harness huge amounts data to provide insights on a global scale. Together with our deep local expertise, we’ve got a winning combination.

Team description:
Search engineering is a newly created team comprised by highly skilled and senior engineers, experts in the search domain. The team is responsible for providing search capabilities as a service to the marketplaces within Schibsted. Along with developing and maintaining the in-house built search engine, the team collaborates closely with data scientists in charge of personalized search features. The team is also responsible for operations and monitoring. The performance of the provided service is very important.

Why join the team:
As an engineer you will get to work in challenging topics where experience and skills matter. You will implement sensible, scalable systems and you will be asked to diagnose, resolve and prevent production issues. You will collaborate with the rest of the team and you build a strong shared technological and domain expertise. You will be part of a team with full control and ownership of its software.

Responsibilities:
Engineer and implement highly scalable systems, using the best development practices and tools
Help define our development environment, and communicate the best development practices within the organisation (i.e. code reviews, testing, etc)
Continuously monitor the quality of our systems, design measurements to monitor their health (both the engineering systems and data quality)
Keep on top of the latest developments in distributed systems, cloud, and data science fields
Work closely with other teams (Data Science, Product and UX) at Schibsted to drive product development

Requirements:
Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
You’re fluent in multiple development languages (static and dynamic), and willing to work with C/C++ and Go
You have a deep understanding of systems design, algorithms, and data structures
The cloud is your friend. Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or any proprietary clouds
Experience with distributed computing technologies
You are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders from different parts of the organization toward a consensus

Requirements
Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
You’re fluent in multiple development languages (static and dynamic), and willing to work with C/C++ and Go
You have a deep understanding of systems design, algorithms, and data structures
The cloud is your friend. Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or any proprietary clouds
Experience with distributed computing technologies
You are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders from different parts of the organization toward a consensus

Schibsted Products & Technology is a brand new technology start-up within Schibsted, with offices in London, Stockholm, Barcelona and Oslo. Our philosophy is built on keeping an open mind, challenging ourselves, and the status quo. The goal is to shape the future of our industry. To achieve this we recruit attitude in addition to technical skills. If you are driven, ambitious, not afraid of challenges and thrive on finding new solutions, we want to hear from you. The overall mission of Schibsted Products and Technology is to develop the common global product platforms and technology infrastructure necessary to create data and identity based ecosystems; empowering local entrepreneurs, delighting users, and driving Schibsted’s future growth. With over 250 million monthly active users under our belt, we're able to harness huge amounts data to provide insights on a global scale. Together with our deep local expertise, we've got a winning combination.