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Marktplaats Netherlands
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Product & Tech / Data
Full time / Regular
The Global Data & Search product teams innovate and build products ranging from personalized, complementary and similar listings recommendation systems, to search ranking models, to user profiling and segmentation services, to performance statistics engines, to AdTech and others to offer our end users and partners to create perfect matches on our marketplaces. The marketplaces in Adevinta’s portfolio fuel the global data platform with rich behavioral, content and user data on which we rely to build global services to empower our marketplaces.
The Smarter Ads team is one of these teams with a mission to enable our end-users to easily insert and discover high-quality ads. Through a range of services the team enhances and augments our users’ search and insertion experience. For example, our autocomplete feature increases search speed and accuracy, popular related searches and search trends inspire our users in their quest to find good deals and our Vision API uses image recognition to enriches the advertisement insertion experience allowing our users to find the correct category and similar items on the our marketplace to increase the likelihood of the advertisement to be seen by a buyer.
What you'll do
As a senior engineer in the Smarter Ads team you will build and run production-grade data and machine learning pipelines and products at scale in an agile setup. You will work closely with our data scientists, engineers, architects and product managers to create the technology that generates and transforms data into applications, insights and experiences for our users.
As Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to:
Communicate and align with peers and cross functional stakeholders.
Drive for technical excellence and pick the right balance between quality and speed of delivery.
Contribute to the target architecture by identifying and contributing to areas of critical need.
Be the go-to expert inside the team in at least one technical area..
Coach and mentor less experienced engineers for growth and success.
Who are you
You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
You have 7+ years of relevant industry experience with 2+ years of data and machine learning related work or research
You have expertise in Java or Scala programming languages.
You have experience designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems built around machine-learned models and big data. Experience with ML Ops and associated best practices.
You have experience with batch and streaming technologies: e.g Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Google DataFlow.
You have expertise with distributed data stores (Cassandra, Google BigTable, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch) and messaging systems (Kafka, Google PubSub) at scale.
You have experience with Linux, Docker, and public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure).
You have a growth-oriented mindset and a desire to teach, improve, and otherwise force multiply the strengths of the engineers that surround you.
You are a fast learner and thrive on learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions.
Marktplaats in The Netherlands, and 2dehands and 2ememain in Belgium, are part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist. The three brands are hosted on a multi-tenant platform, operated from our Amsterdam location, and are the top players in the classifieds space throughout the Benelux region.We offer consumers the opportunity to trade their unwanted products and contribute to a greener, circular economy. We offer businesses - of all sizes, from the smallest hobbyist to the biggest brands in Benelux - a platform to showcase their goods and services online to over 11 million monthly unique users.Adevinta is recognised as a sustainability leader and is one of only six companies listed in the Media & Entertainment industry group on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) Europe.
Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.
Careers at Adevinta can take you in all sorts of directions and to many different countries. The question is – where do you want to go?
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