Senior Back End Application Engineer
Luxembourg /
IT /
Full-time
/ Hybrid
Our different IT teams take care of various aspects around the analysis of the large volume of data that we constantly process - to provide our customers with the best solution to fulfill their needs. We crawl, process, analyze, enrich and search public data (speech, video, and text) with the help of modern Machine Learning technology, store the results in a manner structured for efficient use by our applications, and visualize it in the Talkwalker solution which our clients use to answer their questions.
Talkwalker is a leading consumer intelligence company with over 2,500 clients globally. Through our AI-powered analytics platform, we gather data from the conversations that happen around brands - online, in the media, and within companies themselves - to uncover, understand, and actionable consumer insights. We are extremely international, with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in New York City, San Francisco, Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Milan and London.
This position will be based in Luxembourg and will have a hybrid work model. Fully remote is not possible.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and refine our core technologies using your strong Java development skills
- Work on diverse and challenging new functionalities, such as detection of duplicates, sentiment, events, trends, automatic translation of text, content extraction, clustering, image classification and brand detection
- Collaborate with Data, Search and other Product & Technology Talkwalker teams to influence business and product delivery in a flexible company structure
- Showcase your work to over 2000 paying clients and more than 100,000 free users
- Write production code for large scale applications using tools like Cassandra
- Experiment with new ways of exposing the data to our clients to provide high performance analytics
- Work in our multi-disciplinary engineering team from diverse backgrounds in an agile and flexible environment
- Participate in continuous releases to constantly improve our product
- Work closely with product owners, understand the business and market, ability to work with others different tech teams
Must-have qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of Java programming language and object-oriented programming concepts
- Proven experience creating stable, reliable, performing and maintainable code
- Familiarity with data modeling and schema design
- Understanding of NoSQL databases and their differences from traditional SQL databases
- Ability to optimize and refactor existing code base
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Understanding of distributed systems and how to work with different environments
Nice-to-have qualifications:
- Understanding of distributed systems and messaging systems
- Has implemented a web framework
- Strong protocol buffers knowledge
- Production debugging with logs and tracing
- Monitoring and KPI metrics (with Grafana for example)
What we offer:
- 26 paid vacation days
- Winter break (closed global offices between Christmas & New Years)
- 3 volunteer days
- Lunch vouchers
- Complimentary health insurance.
What you can expect from the interview process:
- 1st interview with Zach, our Talent & Culture Business Partner - 30 minutes
- 2nd interview with one of our Software Engineers - 60 minutes
- 3rd step is a live, online coding session using Coderpad - 120 minutes
- Final interview with a P&T Director or Team Manager - 30 minutes
Talkwalker is committed to bringing together a diverse workforce that we believe will enrich our workplace. We aim to provide employees with a safe and welcoming work environment, free of discrimination and harassment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, family or parental status, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
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About us:
Talkwalker is the #1 consumer intelligence company and is dedicated to helping brands close the gap between brand and consumer. Recognized by Forrester as a Leader in Consumer Intelligence and Social Listening, Talkwalker brings together market-leading social analytics and AI technology, with unstructured data expertise, and a global team of insights analysts and data storytellers.
Talkwalker enables brands to put consumers at the heart of their decision-making, empowering them to embrace smarter innovation, create more successful campaigns, and provide enhanced customer experiences. With teams around the world, Talkwalker helps over 2,500 global brands to be consumers close, and accelerate their brand growth.
Talkwalker is committed to bringing together a diverse workforce that we believe will enrich our workplace. We aim to provide employees with a safe and welcoming work environment, free of discrimination and harassment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, family or parental status, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
To discover more about Talkwalker, please visit www.talkwalker.com.
