Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Hamburg, Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 70.000 to 85.000€ gross/year
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop a high-performance ranking engine, build data pipelines from BigQuery to relational databases, and create powerful APIs using Node.js/TypeScript to intelligently sort product data.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Shape how millions of users see products by blending ML model outputs with business logic (like campaign boosts or sponsored items).
- Build and own our high-throughput ranking engine ("Spotsetter") to ensure fast, deterministic, and fair product sorting.
- Design reliable batch write pipelines that stream data from BigQuery straight into high-performance relational stores like Postgres and MySQL.
- Develop low-latency serving APIs with Fastify and Node.js/TypeScript.
- Work closely with data engineers, product managers, and commercial teams to make data-driven ranking decisions.
- Architectural freedom: collaborate with our Tech Lead, bring in your own ideas, and keep our codebase clean.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You love digging into ranking problems, taking deep ownership of a product, and seeing your changes move real business metrics.
- Strong hands-on SQL knowledge (Postgres/MySQL schema design, query optimization, and batch operations beyond basic ORMs).
- Gute algorithmische Intuition für sortierte Daten, Deduplication, Latenzkompromisse und Constraint-Logik.
- You're excited to bridge backend engineering and ML by serving model scores or ranking data in live systems.
- Klare Kommunikationsfähigkeiten in Englisch und eine pragmatische, lösungsorientierte Denkweise.
Experience
- 5+ Jahre Erfahrung mit Backend-Systemen (Node.js/TypeScript bevorzugt, aber wir begrüßen schnelle Lerner aus Java, Go oder Kotlin).
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What we offer
- € 70,000-85,000 per year.
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About Your Employer
About You
As a rapidly growing online fashion retailer in Europe, ABOUT YOU has won multiple awards. As a fashion company and technology company, we work together to make the shopping experience more inspiring and personal for our customers.
Description
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Senior Backend Engineer - Sorting
- Salary
- 70.000 to 85.000€ gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad using tax class I.42.583 to 50.675 € net/year · Tax class I
- Location
- Hamburg, Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
