Backend Engineer, Content Engineering (BEC 0925), Skroutz S.A, GR

At Skroutz, our mission is simple: we aim to amaze. From our humble beginnings back in 2005, we believe that happy customers equal happy merchants and it’s our job to understand and anticipate their needs and offer them an unparalleled, doubt-free experience. 

Our vision is clear: we aspire to simplify shopping, creating a trusted platform where millions discover and fulfill their online shopping needs easily and safely.

Whether you're looking for a new smartphone, restocking your pantry with essentials, seeking the perfect outfit for an upcoming event, or simply hunting for that collectible gaming console, Skroutz is your trusted partner for seamless shopping experiences.

And our ambitions extend far beyond Greece's borders. We're on a trajectory to become one of Europe's fastest-growing Marketplaces, with exciting expansions already underway in Cyprus and the Balkans. Our commitment to customer satisfaction remains paramount, guiding every decision we make.

To achieve our vision, we seek individuals who share our passion for e-commerce and technology. If you're driven by the desire to create extraordinary shopping moments for our users, as well as help sellers all around the world grow their businesses, then we want you on our team.

Join us at Skroutz and be part of a journey that's reshaping the way we shop online. Together, let's turn everyday moments into remarkable experiences.

Ready for the challenge?

#AimToAmaze #Skroutz20

Our engineering values

• Know your Tech. Develop and master your craft, sharpen your tools. Be proud of your work.
• Release early & Iterate. Deliver prototypes and start gathering important feedback early on. Use that feedback to guide you. Don't be afraid to compromise, make sure to come back & tidy things up.
• Be a team player. Offer your help, listen and seek to understand. Step up & take initiatives.
• Don't over anything. Don't over-engineer, over-analyze, over-regulate, you get it.
• Enjoy your work. Celebrate success.

Technologies we use

Our main stack is Ruby for the backend - using the Ruby on Rails framework - with Javascript (ES6) and React/Redux for the frontend. Our main storage is a MariaDB cluster. We heavily use Elasticsearch, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis and Memcached. We use Jenkins for our CI and various tools like Sentry, NewRelic and Grafana for monitoring. Generally we try to pick the best tool we know or we can find that serves our needs.

How will you contribute to Skroutz vision

We are looking for Software Engineers with a strong technical background and a “get-things-done” attitude who are eager to learn new exciting technologies to join our Content team.

What you will be doing

• Optimize our product categorization and clustering pipelines, used to classify over 30k new products daily.
• Improve the extraction of product attributes (e.g. brand, color, model number) from product titles, descriptions or other semi-structured data.
• Develop our content management system (codenamed "Earth"), used to maintain specs, descriptions and media for over 10M products.
• Work on product sizes detection and conversions across 150+ fashion categories, enabling filters and size guides on the Skroutz platform.
• Help automate any time-consuming manual procedure that a machine can perform more efficiently.