Overview
Italy; Poland; Spain
We are the platform turning browsing into shopping. We connect 200 million shoppers with deals they love while boosting local sales for hundreds of top retailers and brands.
We help consumers save time and money while making smart shopping decisions, and we support retailers and brands in engaging customers from online research to in-store purchases.
Ready to spark your growth with us? 🚀
Every day, millions of shoppers rely on our applications to discover relevant content and make smarter shopping decisions. As a Software Engineer, you will join a team responsible for distributing content to shopper-facing applications, with a primary focus on search.
The team owns services that must efficiently handle large volumes of content and high request traffic, ensuring fast, reliable, and relevant search experiences. You will work on backend systems that power content discovery, using OpenSearch as our search engine, and contribute to building scalable and performant services.
You will be part of a collaborative engineering team, working closely with Product and technical leadership, while also mentoring more junior engineers and contributing to the team’s technical growth.
Your responsibilities will focus on backend development, system design, and reliability, with opportunities to influence both day-to-day execution and longer-term technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features and improvements for backend services that power content distribution and search
- Contribute to the design and evolution of systems handling large volumes of shopper requests and content
- Work on search-related features and performance optimizations using OpenSearch
- Plan, estimate, and deliver features and bug fixes that provide clear business value
- Break down large features and projects into manageable tasks that can be distributed across the team
- Identify and address performance issues in production systems
- Fix bugs and refactor code to improve maintainability and reusability of internal and open-source packages
- Modularize and abstract code to improve scalability and reuse
- Design and write automated unit and integration tests
- Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and enforcing best practices
- Contribute ideas to the team’s technical roadmap through hands-on development experience
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure reliability
- Collaborate with Product Owners and technical leaders to refine requirements for upcoming features
- Mentor Junior, Intern, and Co-op developers, helping grow their technical capabilities
Qualifications
- 2–5 years of backend or full-stack development experience
- Experience working with relational databases or other data storage mechanisms
- Proven ability to ship quality code and deliver high-quality features in production
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Working knowledge of design patterns and how to apply them to real-world systems
- Experience contributing to the design of backend systems and services
- Ability to plan and estimate work for features and bug fixes
- Experience writing automated unit and integration tests
- Ability to debug, refactor, and improve existing codebases
- Awareness of performance, scalability, and reliability considerations in backend systems
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and support production systems
Ways of Working
- Experience working in collaborative engineering teams
- Comfortable giving and receiving feedback through code reviews
- High growth mindset, with a desire to continuously improve yourself, the team, and the systems you work on
👉 We value diversity and actively encourage it. If this role excites you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you — even if you don’t tick every box.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Golang
- Experience working with OpenSearch or similar search technologies
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Location & Benefits
Remote available from Italy, Spain and Poland. Flexible hybrid model; offices globally. Additional country-specific advantages based on local contracts and practices.
- Progress Over Perfection: momentum and speed with purpose
- Clarity Through Transparency
- Learn Loudly
- Challenge with Empathy
We’re a team with 450+ people from 30 nationalities, focused on building better products, systems, and ideas.
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