Vollzeit Java Developer (m/f) – Text Search
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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 19 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 – Text Search (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 player alongside Google and Amazon.
Your profile:
- University degree in Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Information Science, NLP or similar
- At least 2 years Java engineering experience in a technology environment related to search
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Good Lucene, SOLR or Elastic Search skills
- Knowledge of WEKA, R, Mahout or Spark MLlib is a plus
- Good knowledge of Kafka, Hadoop/Hive or NoSQL-related data stores
- Ideally first hands on experience with machine learning or natural language processing
- Highly motivated to face challenges in design and programming tasks related to search algorithms
- Analytical mindset with a kick-ass “getting-things-done” mentality
Your responsibilities:
- Building a highly scalable distributed search system for indexing millions of shopping products
- Building comprehensible matching, ranking and recommendation algorithms of text search
- Incorporating practical experience in machine learning into search and recommendation algorithms
- Evaluating new technologies on natural language processing for improving index quality
- Being a contact person when it comes to design for semantic mapping of index, search queries and our users’ intention
- Producing a solid production quality code for creating new features that delight our users
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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