Senior Software Engineer (Ecommerce)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Ecommerce): Scaling Shopping Platform infrastructure by 10X, supporting exponential growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements. Focus on contributing to technical excellence in data pipelines, real-time data processing, and information retrieval.

Location: This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: Zurich.

Company

hirify.global is a visual discovery platform where people find inspiration and bring their passions to life.

What you will do

• Scale the Shopping Platform infrastructure by 10X, supporting exponential growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements.
• Build large-scale, highly distributed systems for catalog ingestion, processing, enrichment, and retrieval, ensuring data is accurate, fresh and easy to access at massive scale.
• Contribute to the technical excellence in data pipelines, real-time data processing, and information retrieval, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as Flink, Spark, TiDB, and more.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.
• Deep technical expertise in catalog management, data pipelines, and real-time data processing.
• Experience building and owning large-scale, high-performance infrastructure powering shopping, recommendation, search, or other consumer-facing applications.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java or C++.
• A bias for action, innovation, and operational rigor in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.