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Kaufland e-commerce

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 B2B

eCommerce • Marketplace • B2B

Kaufland e-commerce is the technology arm and employer brand powering Kaufland’s international online marketplaces. It builds and operates the Kaufland online marketplaces and Kaufland Global Marketplace (KGM) — a B2B all‑in‑one seller solution — and develops related digital products (for example the Kaufland app and Kaufland Card). As an independent tech company collaborating with Kaufland retail, KEC focuses on marketplace platform, product and engineering teams and employs 800+ people across multiple German locations and remote to serve millions of customers and thousands of merchants across Europe.

📋 Description

• Elevate search capabilities for customers • Improve relevance by writing faster queries and enhancing data quality • Enrich ingestion architecture by consuming change events and updating Elasticsearch mappings • Ensure efficient integration and enhance search results through improved mapping and data retrieval • Understand data modeling implications for indexing and querying • Maintain fast search performance and ensure resiliency in microservice environments • Work with technologies such as Kubernetes, gRPC, TypeScript, Node.js, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, and DataDog for monitoring

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a Search Engineer • Deep understanding of how (distributed) search engines work, with hands-on experience in a major search engine • Ability to run, monitor, debug, and operate Elasticsearch clusters and related applications, producing well-tested and reviewed code • Experience providing measurable results, running A/B tests to validate changes, and defining success/failure metrics for search features • Curious about the latest developments in search and related technologies, including semantic search, NLP, LLMs, vector search, hybrid search, and machine learning • Willingness to coach and mentor colleagues and to share knowledge • Commitment to team success, providing honest feedback and engaging in effective discussions • Excellent written and spoken English skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Create your own work–life balance: Flexible choice to work remotely (within Germany) or from one of our offices in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or Berlin • Urban Sports Club and RSG Group fitness studios: Access special offers for fitness, swimming, yoga, and more • Mental well-being: Support through services such as Instahelp, a digital platform for online psychological counseling • Vacation & sabbatical: 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical after a qualifying period • Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Purchase Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances • 'Deutschlandticket': We subsidize your train season ticket for increased mobility • Employee discount: Monthly coupon for Kaufland.de • Free choice of hardware: Choose between Mac or Lenovo • Boost your growth: Access online language programs, a variety of in-house training, and automated 360-degree feedback