Search Engineer / Data Scientist - Discovery

About RedMart

Our mission is to save you time and money for the important things in life!

Order any time, from anywhere via our site or mobile app. Thousands of groceries and home essential products at your fingertips!

Delivery to your door 7 days a week within your chosen 2-hour time slot. Save time with fewer trips to the store, less waiting in line, and less stuff to lug home!

Low everyday prices and great deals. Since we don’t have high cost stores and related overhead, we can pass the savings on to you!

Your qualification

• Deep expertise in search, preferably in e-commerce. Excellent knowledge on improving search incrementally as well as making step-changes such as applying NLP, text mining, etc.
• Proven track record building robust search systems and achieving strong results
• Expertise in personalization and recommender systems
• Able to guide a team of engineers to identify and break down necessary architecture and services to support search and personalization services
• Able to guide and work well with a team of engineers to implement Machine Learning algorithms and models, as well as implementing necessary software
• Solid understanding of search metrics and implementing tracking to measure performance
• Solid understanding of search engines and utilizing features effectively
• Hands-on experience developing and implementing Machine Learning algorithms and models. Background in Machine Learning, Statistics & Information Retrieval
• Design, implement, test robust technical solutions that our high traffic site/apps can rely on
• Write clean code that’s testable, maintainable, solves the right problem and does it well. Code you can be proud of
• Understanding of A/B testing

Will be a plus

• Familiarity with ElasticSearch
• Phd, Masters, or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (computer science, physics, mathematics, bioinformatics, etc.)
• Experience programming in functional languages (Scala, Golang, Haskell, Clojure etc.)
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python/R, familiarity with web frameworks
• Experience with Java and / or Scala and microservices

Additional details

Desired Skills:

• Able to be a key influencer in the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning, showing good judgement making technical trade-offs between the team’s short term and long term business needs, and the needs of the company as a whole
• Strong team player: Superb communication skills, thrives in a collaborative environment and be committed to the success of the team as a whole
• Critical thinking: ability to track down complex data and engineering issues, evaluate different algorithmic approaches, and analyze data to solve problems
• Creativity: you can conceive of new data driven products, features, and technologies
• Results: you prioritize, focusing on ideas and features that will have significant, measurable impact
• Planning & estimation: ability to set and meet your own project objectives & milestones
• Communicate results and progress internally and externally in meetings, presentations, and tech talks
• Passion for technology. Our developers are always evaluating new tools and technologies that can make us better. What has attracted your interest lately?