Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Application, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Leipzig
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid
Job Summary
In this role, you design and develop innovative search solutions using Apache Solr and related technologies, take ownership of code quality and performance, and actively collaborate within an agile team across the entire development process.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Together with your experienced colleagues, you will design, plan, and develop customer-centric and value-adding new features for the Search Engine product area of our E-Commerce & Multichannel platform.
- Within an agile environment, you take responsibility together with your team for the entire development process, starting from architecture design through continuous deployments to maintenance, coordinating with neighboring teams.
- You actively take ownership of your code, drive technical decisions in coordination with stakeholders, and select appropriate testing, quality, and performance standards.
- You actively take ownership of your services and infrastructure, drive technical decisions in coordination with technical stakeholders such as platform teams, and define quality and performance standards depending on the development stage of the product (e.g., PoC, MVP, scalable product).
- With your experience, you assess and evaluate the effort of complex features by considering technical requirements and business impact — always maintaining a balance between technical excellence and economic added value.
- You proactively contribute to building knowledge for search technologies within the team and generally support team members in their technical development.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You have very good knowledge of at least one object-oriented or functional programming language - preferably Java or Kotlin - or are eager to learn and work within our predominantly JVM-based tech stack.
- Your strong communication skills and problem-solving abilities make you a valuable team player, and you enjoy advancing your colleagues as a mentor or coach.
- You are curious about new technologies, enjoy exploring unfamiliar territory, and quickly familiarize yourself with new topics.
- You have good German language skills, i.e., at least at the B2 level.
- You also have good knowledge of English.
Experience
- You have extensive and in-depth experience in developing high-performance, flexible search solutions in an agile environment, utilizing Apache Solr, Querqy, and related technologies. Alternatively, you have relevant experience with a comparable technology (e.g., Elasticsearch, Opensearch) and are eager to familiarize yourself with our Solr-based stack.
- You have already gained experience in implementing vector-based search systems in this environment and are proficient in working with language models for interpreting search queries. Hybrid search approaches are also part of your skill set.
- You have experience working with modern web frameworks (e.g., SpringBoot, Rails, Laravel).
- You already have experience with MongoDB and/or other NoSQL databases, AWS, and Docker container technologies, and you also enjoy working on infrastructure tasks.
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E. Breuninger Gmbh & Co.
Breuninger is one of the leading department stores in Europe and sets high standards in fashion, beauty and lifestyle. In addition to style awareness and trend sense, Breuninger stands for pronounced customer orientation and service offerings that create a unique shopping experience - both offline and online.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Founding year
- 1881
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade
Senior Software Engineer FIND - Solr
- Location
- Leipzig
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
