Picsart

Senior Backend Engineer, Search Engine

Berlin, Germany
SQL Python Machine Learning Android Elasticsearch Java Spark
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Description

Being a part of Search Group you will be responsible for developing and improving the quality of search engine experience for our users. Search is the core component and one of the most highload part with about 100M+ images in index and millions of search queries during a day. Every day search helps our users to find photos for inspiration. We are seeking a person committed to teamwork, who enjoys working on cutting-edge technologies and thrives on building a well-defined workflow and innovative technologies acknowledged at the world level.


By joining us, you will benefit from

- An honest, open culture that emphasises feedback and promotes professional and personal development

- Remote-friendly setup— our global team is distributed worldwide, from Armenia to US, UK, Germany, Spain, and Romania

- Well-being benefits (including a monthly well-being fund)

- Growing opportunities — based on your preference, you can grow in the company as a people manager or individual contributor. 

- An environment that fosters innovation and creativity, a culture with the ability to pilot new trends.


You will

- Scale, design and implement improvements to existing search engine

- Improve of CI/CD pipelines

- Improve of search infrastructure and data pipelines

- Communicate with stakeholders about requirements of different features

- Develop solutions you’ve designed from the ground up through to deployment into production

- Identify and addressing performance bottlenecks within the application and broader infrastructure

- Participate in design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews

- Performance debug, benchmark and build awesome things in general


About you

- Master degree in Computer Science or related field

- Extensive experience with search engines Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

- Deep knowledge of Java

- Deep understanding of search engines technologies and algorithms

- Knowledge of traditional build systems (Gradle, Maven)

- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms

- Good knowledge of Apache Spark

- Experience with databases, complex SQL querying

- Experience with data manipulation languages such as Python

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines

- Strong knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms

- Good written and verbal English communication skills

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills

- Machine learning related to ranking (learning to rank) is a plys

- Experience in search quality area is a plys

- Experience in AB tests frameworks is a plys

 

 

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What we seek and value most in our candidates 
Professionalism in both soft and hard skills; motivation to grow, learn and share, positive attitude, flexibility, transparency, ownership and the most important - passion and commitment.  
Picsart is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law. 
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ABOUT US 
Picsart is the world’s largest digital creation platform and a top 20 most downloaded app. Every month, the Picsart community creates, remixes, and shares billions of visual stories using the company’s powerful and easy-to-use editing tools. Picsart has amassed one of the largest open-source content collections in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers, backgrounds, templates, and more. Picsart is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android, Windows devices and on the Web. Headquartered in Miami, with offices around the world, Picsart is backed by SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners, and others. Download the app or visit picsart.com for more information.

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