Software Engineer - Search

THG is an international technology company and leading online retailer, home to global, premium brands such as lookfantastic, Myprotein, and ESPA; all of which are powered by our industry-leading and award-winning technology platform, THG Ingenuity (https://www.thg.com/ingenuity-at-a-glance) which is now powering a growing number of global brands as the e-commerce platform

Ingenuity has followed 16 years of continuous investment in proprietary technology, operations, digital and data infrastructure to grow THG’s brands into digital category leaders.

Tech at THG

Technology is the driving force behind THG, and it starts with our people. We are ambitious with our goals and challenge conventional thinking. THG Technology is different because we support every single person to make massive impact and drive their own work.

Our people are always learning, and we work every day to ensure our technology, from our software platforms, to our hosting services, to our ML capability and beyond, is world class. This enables us to keep powering THG and our partners on a global scale.

What will I be doing?

Search is a critical part of our Ingenuity SaaS platform, serving hundreds of millions of customer searches per year across over 500 sites and underpinning other key features of our e-commerce sites.

We are looking to further improve search relevancy through investments in semantic search working closely with our Machine Learning team and partner closely with our internal brands and Ingenuity customers to drive further innovation and continual improvements across our search capability.

As a Software Engineer within the Search team you’ll work with a team of engineers and be responsible for all aspects of engineering and 24x7 operations related to our search platform.

What skills and experience would I need?

Essential skills:

· Strong programming skills, ideally in Java

· Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

· Use of CI/CD, deployment pipelines and build automation.

· Strong, applied experience with Elastic Search or a related search technology.

· Expertise across a wide range of programming languages, environments, and platforms.

· Experience with setting goals/objectives and creating clarity within a team around vision within an organisation that has many concurrent priorities.

Desired skills:

· Domain experience of addressing the challenges in building a reliable search architecture in the e-commerce space with high frequency/continual updates to content.

· Experience of messaging architectures and technologies, ideally ActiveMQ and Apache Kafka

Desired behaviours

· Autonomously plan, design, communicate and execute projects.

· Produce high quality production-strength software and systems

· Deliver software that is scalable, globally-distributed and with high availability

· Communicate with technical and non-technical audiences on projects

· Conduct code reviews, peer programming and knowledge sharing sessions

· Provide technical support for systems and user requests

· Intentionally inclusive of others

· Curious, data driven and able to self-start in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment

What's in it for me?

· Competitive salary in a growth inducive environment

· Performance Related Bonus Scheme

· Work with teams to build solutions using the latest technology

· Work with reputed THG clients across industries and geographies

· Work alongside genuine industry/domain experts 

· Continuous development through our in-house L&D team

· Staff discounts on THG brands and Hale Country Club 

· On-site doctor, physio and barber