Experienced Search Relevance Engineer - Search (m/f/d)

remoteo; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount program

Flexible work hours

Training budget

Language courses

Birthday off

Cutting-edge tech stack

Job summary

MediaMarktSaturn Technology is seeking a highly capable professional for its Barcelona Tech Hub to lead search relevance configurations in a Solr-based E-commerce search engine. You will collaborate with POs, data analysts, and engineers across multiple countries to improve product relevance and data mappings.

Ideal candidates will have a technical background in informatics or CS, with Python/Java/Kotlin and DevOps knowledge, plus a willingness to learn Solr and advanced search concepts.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of search relevance and ETL concepts.
• Interest in Solr and its workings.
• Strong technical understanding and quick learning ability.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing search relevance configurations and parameter settings in Solr-based system.
• Collaborate with POs, Data Analysts, and Search Managers across countries.
• Work with data scientists and engineers to improve relevance models and mappings.
• Create/understand documentation and transfer knowledge across teams.

Skills

Search algorithms

ETL knowledge

Python

Java/Kotlin

DevOps

Kubernetes (K8s)

Excellent communication

Ability to learn AI coding assistants

Education

Informatics / Computer Science degree (plus)

Tools

Apache Solr

Lucene queries

Elasticsearch (nice to have)

Job description

Your Tasks

The Search team is responsible for providing products to our customers. We must provide the relevant products first to ensure that every customer can find what they're looking for. To provide a better list of products, we must always consider what is relevant to our customers. That is why the Relevance area is crucial to our search.

We need to work with several countries, gather the requirements, and apply those so our search keeps improving daily.

Tasks

• Overseeing all search relevance configurations and parameter settings inside our self-developed Apache Solr-based E-commerce Search Engine and data processing rules (e.g., for filter creation) during ETL
• Constantly exchanging with POs, Data Analysts, and Search Managers from several countries concerning active topics (e.g., campaign support) and needing to be able to transfer business requirements into search configurations at the code level
• Working with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to improve our relevance models, filter, mappings, and products, participating in discovery meetings and architectural discussions/decisions with the rest of the team
• Understanding and/or creating technical and feature-related documentation and the transference of that knowledge back into operational units in different countries will also be a part of your recurring tasks

Your Profile

• Interest to learn or already know Search algorithms and processes related to data ETL (structured collections/indexes, field types for searching/filtering/bucketing, etc.) and search relevance optimization (precision, recall, nDCG, etc.)
• Willingness to learn about Solr and how it works
• Possessing a significant technical understanding and being able to quickly grasp new tasks and highly complex subjects
• A degree in informatics, business informatics, computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field is a plus, but not mandatory to apply.
• Understanding of Python & Java/Kotlin, DevOps, and K8s knowledge are a plus
• Good, but optional, to have years of experience working with either Apache Solr or Elasticsearch and feel comfortable with field schemas and complex queries, incl. boosts, filters, and Lucene function queries. Any experience with e-commerce search solutions is a plus
• Being reliable and motivated and bringing solid communication skills, the right team spirit, the ambition to be innovative and taking search relevance to the next level
• First touch points with AI Coding Assistants.

About Us

MediaMarktSaturn is Europe's leading consumer electronics retailer. It sees itself as a partner, daily companion and navigator for its customers in the digital world. Its over 1,000 MediaMarkt and Saturn stores are closely integrated with their online shops. MediaMarktSaturn has a total headcount of more than 60,000.

MediaMarktSaturn Technology is working on making Europe's number one consumer electronics retailer the technology leader in its sector. To this end, several hundred developers, UX designers and system architects using state-of-the-art technology work hand in hand with business owners in agile teams to develop customer-focused technology solutions for more than 6 million customers every day in 11 countries.

Technology Hub located in Barcelona

, is one of the service units of MediaMarktSaturn Technology to deliver adequate staffing and engineering skills for the agreed deliveries of the global deployment plan for the entire group.

Within the Global Technology division, you are part of a strong cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists and analytics experts to drive the development of our global product data management. Within the team and in close collaboration with the business product owner, you will design and develop data and analytics solutions to enable the analysis of product data.

(*) Diversity and equal opportunities are important to us. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they don't meet all the criteria. If you are interested in this position but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional Benefits

• Young environment, where not everything is written in stone, and where you are expected to contribute and co-create the culture of the Tech Hub and international collaboration model
• You'll have a 10% discount on the entire MediaMarkt website, so you can treat yourself at a lower price whenever you want!
• On top of your compensation package, you can request Flexible Pay "MediaFlex program" (a.e. Ticket Restaurant, Private Health Insurance with SegurCaixa Adeslas, ...)
• Flexible working time and possibility to combine home office / presential working. Intensive workday every Friday and during summer
• The possibility to choose between 2 offices: The first one is the MediaMarkt Iberia HQ with a very attractive menu at a price. You'll eat for less than €4! And the second office is located at Pier01, in Barceloneta, right in the center of Barcelona.
• There is a training budget so you can continue developing the skills you need most to keep growing professionally and personally!
• We offer language classes: English, Spanish, and German
• On your birthday, you won't work! It's a day for you to enjoy without thinking about work
• You'll be working with the most cutting-edge technological stack of the moment

Job Infos

Location: Barcelona, El Prat De Llobregat

Media Markt Saturn Th Services Barcelona

Department: HQ - IT

Entrylevel: Professional Level

Type of Employement: Full Time

Working Hours: 40

Persona: Job Requisition Tech Employee

Recruiter: Antonio López

Recruiter: Antonio Lopez Mendez