Senior Software Engineer (Search)

Amazon.ae

Jordan

Ref: RP971-29

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- Write well designed and efficient code.
- Follow best practices and design patterns.
- Review Code for other members in your team.
- Ability to prepare and push releases to production.
- Maintain development and Staging environments.
- Design and review any new architecture.
- Do high level estimate for big projects and detailed estimation for tasks.
- Develop and deploy new features and requirements from product owner.
- Troubleshoot and fix any type of issues.
- Write a documentation for team's system.
- Make sure your system is highly available, scalable, fast and cost efficient.
- Maintain current system and the ability to work on any new technology and systems.
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycl.

Requirements

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline.
- 5+ years development experience with PHP, Java or Python.
- 2+ years working with web frameworks (Spring Boot, Phalcon, Laravel …etc.)
- Very Good Knowledge in information retrieval, text analysis and ranking.
- Good knowledge of fulltext search engines (ElasticSearch, Solr or Sphinx).
- Very Good knowledge of relational and non relational databases.
- Very good knowledge of version control tools (Git or SVN).
- Good knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc.
- Familiar with a Linux.
- Working within a team environment.
- Familiar with agile methodologies.

Core Competencies:
- Good English written / verbal communication skills, bilingual Preferred.
- Energetic, flexible, focused and self-motivated
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Ability to work well in teams.

About the Company

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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