Machine Learning Engineer
JD.com (NASDAQ: JD and HKEX: 9618), also known as JINGDONG, has evolved from a pioneering e-commerce platform into a leading technology and service provider with supply chain at its core. Renowned for its supply chain innovation and excellence, the company has expanded into sectors including retail, technology, logistics, healthcare, and more, aiming to transform traditional business models with cutting-edge digital solutions. Know more about us:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing technical team at Joybuy ( Joybuy is JD.com's European full-category online retail brand designed to bring customers a faster, more convenient, and cost-effective shopping experience. Offering same-day and next-day delivery across the UK, Joybuy combines speed, reliability, and affordability to meet the needs of modern shoppers. Your work has an impact on the search and recommendation experience for our customers. This will involve working alongside our design leads, product leads, and business leads, helping with everything from the development of tools and platforms to code optimisations and the deployment of solutions. This role will have a business impact of at least GBP 100 million.
The ideal candidate will have solid technical experience with search engines and strong business acumen.
Responsibilities
JD.com (NASDAQ: JD and HKEX: 9618), also known as JINGDONG, is a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider. The company's cutting-edge retail infrastructure seeks to enable consumers to buy whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want it. The company has opened its technology and infrastructure to partners, brands and other sectors, as part of its "Retail as a Service" offering to help drive productivity and innovation across a range of industries. JD.com's business has expanded across retail, technology, logistics, health, industrials, property development and international business. JD.com is ranked 44th on the Fortune Global 500 list and is China's largest retailer by revenue, serving over 600 million annual active customers. The company has been listed on NASDAQ since 2014, and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2020. Committed to the principles of customer first, innovation, dedication, ownership, gratitude, and integrity, the company's mission is to make lives better through technology, striving to be the most trusted company in the world.
【Our Global Business】
We are dedicated to building a digitally intelligent, cross-border supply chain and global retail infrastructure. Leveraging our global supply chain capabilities, JD.com continues to expand in markets where our competitive strengths shine. Currently, JD.com's operations span China, the U.K., the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the U.S., and many others, serving customers worldwide.
Key International Business Segments: Joybuy (online retail business in Europe), International Logistics, Cross-border Import Business, JD Industrials International, JD Property International
We have an exciting opportunity for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing technical team at Joybuy ( Joybuy is JD.com's European full-category online retail brand designed to bring customers a faster, more convenient, and cost-effective shopping experience. Offering same-day and next-day delivery across the UK, Joybuy combines speed, reliability, and affordability to meet the needs of modern shoppers. Your work has an impact on the search and recommendation experience for our customers. This will involve working alongside our design leads, product leads, and business leads, helping with everything from the development of tools and platforms to code optimisations and the deployment of solutions. This role will have a business impact of at least GBP 100 million.
The ideal candidate will have solid technical experience with search engines and strong business acumen.
Responsibilities
- Participate in system design, architecture, and software development of the search and recommendation function.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance high-quality code and solutions.
- Perform code reviews to optimise the technical performance of the solutions.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
- Communicate and translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Look for opportunities to continuously improve our technology, processes, and practices.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Professional experience in software development, with recent years focused on search technologies.
- Professional experience in testing and launching software products, as well as software design and architecture.
- Experience with different programming languages and a good grasp of at least one language, such as Python.
- Customer focus with the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence.
- Ability to apply technical skills and know-how to solving real-world business problems.
- Good understanding of NLP processing.
- Proficiency in the English language.
- A background or strong understanding of the retail sector, logistics, and/or e-commerce.
- Recent professional software development experience in recommender systems.
- Proficiency in the Chinese language.
JD.com (NASDAQ: JD and HKEX: 9618), also known as JINGDONG, is a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider. The company's cutting-edge retail infrastructure seeks to enable consumers to buy whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want it. The company has opened its technology and infrastructure to partners, brands and other sectors, as part of its "Retail as a Service" offering to help drive productivity and innovation across a range of industries. JD.com's business has expanded across retail, technology, logistics, health, industrials, property development and international business. JD.com is ranked 44th on the Fortune Global 500 list and is China's largest retailer by revenue, serving over 600 million annual active customers. The company has been listed on NASDAQ since 2014, and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2020. Committed to the principles of customer first, innovation, dedication, ownership, gratitude, and integrity, the company's mission is to make lives better through technology, striving to be the most trusted company in the world.
【Our Global Business】
We are dedicated to building a digitally intelligent, cross-border supply chain and global retail infrastructure. Leveraging our global supply chain capabilities, JD.com continues to expand in markets where our competitive strengths shine. Currently, JD.com's operations span China, the U.K., the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the U.S., and many others, serving customers worldwide.
Key International Business Segments: Joybuy (online retail business in Europe), International Logistics, Cross-border Import Business, JD Industrials International, JD Property International