Senior Search Engineer

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 experience 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.

As an Engineer, you will be focused on improving the search experience for our users. You will be obsessed with making search results relevant so that users are able to find their favourite cuisine and items easily and faster. 

Some problems we are working on in the search domain: 

• How do we improve the ranking of search results?

• What is the intent of the user’s search query?

• How do we reduce the zero result rate for our user’s search queries?

• How to make search results and search suggestions relevant to our users?

• and many more such questions...  

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 scientist, analysts, and product in a cross-functional team to solve search problems

• Develop multi-vertical and multi-language scalable and reliable search service 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

At Delivery Hero, you’ll shape the global consumer experience for millions of users. Your work will have a direct impact on how we attract and retain customers, creating data-driven, personalized interactions that keep them coming back. As part of our Consumer Team, you’ll enhance customer satisfaction and drive global growth and profitability through innovative projects.

• B.S or M.S. degree in computer science, information systems or other related fields

• Experience working with Elasticsearch/Solr/Lucene, and has 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 

• Extensive knowledge and working experience with Java Frameworks + Solid experience in the design and implementation of APIs and design patterns

• Curiosity, creative outside-the-box problem-solving abilities and an eye for details

• "You build it, you run it!" mentality and full ownership of the developed applications. Development and co-ownership of applications used by millions of users 

• 5+ years of experience

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• 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, Corporate Discounts and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

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