Data Software Engineer (m/f/x)

Your tasks:

• Work in a team with Data Engineers and Data Scientists to contribute to the (technical) design, implementation and evaluation of new algorithms, machine learning models and other data-driven features and services. 
• Design and implement components in a sustainable fashion (e.g. having on observability, computational costs, ease of use, future maintenance costs) 
• Build, deploy, monitor and operate services within our infrastructure, while automating processes. 
• Use technologies like Scala, Kafka, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Hive, Spark and Hadoop 

Your skills:

• BSc or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent Software Engineering experience 
• Very good programming skills in Scala and Python 
• Knowledge and experience in implementing scalable software and services which process large volume of data (e.g. real-time processing components, REST services), using search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.), data storage (e.g. relational databases, key-value stores) and related data processing technologies (e.g. Kafka, Akka, Play, etc.) 
• Proficient English language skills (German is not required) 

• Nice to have 
• Experience in designing architectures and developing software components for distributed systems (e.g. in the context of micro-service architectures)  
• Experience in building libraries, frameworks or platform services that other Software Engineers use  
• Good knowledge in SQL 
• Previous experience in working with recommender systems or search services