Vollzeit Java Developer (m/f) – Search Analytics
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Jobbeschreibung
We are Visual Meta, an innovative Berlin-based e-commerce company, which has grown to over 270 employees since its foundation in 2009 and is still growing at a relentless pace. We run shopping sites in 20 countries across three continents such as LadenZeile and ShopAlike, on which we offer fashion, furniture and a variety of other products to our users. We are an extremely international company and have managed to retain a very friendly and open working environment. Since 2011 we belong to the Axel Springer Group and have benefited from its great network of online businesses.
We deal with modern web technologies, large databases, millions of images, data mining and analysis, search technologies and machine learning. We code stuff that matters and reaches millions of people. We believe in lean and agile software engineering. Our technology stack is plain Java, MySQL, Hadoop, Spring, Eclipse, Lucene and Tomcat.
We are looking for a “Java Developer – Search Analytics (m/f)” on a full-time basis to build the next generation of search. Our main goal is to become part of the top ten shopping search engines worldwide and to be one of the top players alongside Google and Amazon.
Your profile:
- University degree in Statistics, Data Mining, Information Science, Information Retrieval or similar
- 2+ years Java engineering experience in a technology environment related to web analytics and/or search analytics
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Good knowledge of Kafka, Hadoop/Hive, NoSQL-related data stores and/or ELK stack
- Ideally first practical experience with machine learning methodologies
- Knowledge of WEKA, R, Mahout or Spark MLlib is a plus
- Highly motivated to face challenging analytical tasks and passionate about discovering patterns in search sessions
- Eager to learn new technologies and extend your knowledge
- Analytical mindset with a kick-ass “getting-things-done” mentality
Your responsibilities:
- Producing solid code and establishing processes to analyse and visualize text search in coordination with BI
- Providing transparency into latent relations and patterns of click and search chains
- Being a contact person when it comes to search analytics, visualization and identifying opportunities to improve search quality
- Providing solid analytics and recommendations for comprehensible matching, ranking and recommendation algorithms
- Developing and optimizing algorithms based on evaluation metrics and methodologies of Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and/or Data Mining
- Defining and estimating metrics and measures to underscore the improvements in text search based on Information Retrieval methodologies
- Building and adapting infrastructure to analyse search logs, anomalies and trends based on Big Data and real time event-based technology
What we offer:
- Being part of this new and exciting project
- A committed, successful and international engineering team in one of the best tech companies in Berlin
- Opportunity to work independently and gain lots of insight into the field of e-commerce
- Continuous training possibilities and room for further personal development
- Flexible working hours and a great office in the heart of Berlin
- Encouraging working environment with inspiring team events and healthy snacks
How to Apply
If you are interested in an exciting position within a friendly team, please submit your application in English to the attention of Wai-Lung Lee, including cover letter, CV, your earliest starting date, salary expectations as well as relevant references, by using the following link: Click here to apply
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
Visual Meta GmbH | Schützenstraße 25 | 10117 Berlin
www.ladenzeile.de | www.visual-meta.com
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