(Senior) Search Engineer - Global Discovery (all genders)

Be our next Hero! - Join the world’s leading local delivery platform.

We are looking for a Senior Search Engineer (all genders) to join the 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...  

If you're a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your mission:

• Obsessed with making 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

Your heroic skills:

• 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 

• Experience with building up low-latency scalable software systems 

• Extensive knowledge and working experience with Java Frameworks, SQL and Python

• Solid experience in the design and implementation of APIs and design patterns

• Development and co-ownership of applications used by millions of users 

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

• "You build it, you run it!" mentality along with full ownership of the developed applications

About us:

As the world’s leading 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 but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent 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.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.