Greece's largest e-commerce marketplace serving 6.5M+ shoppers and 8,000+ merchants
Skroutz is a 20-year-old Greek e-commerce platform that evolved from price comparison into a full marketplace. The tech stack—Ruby on Rails, React, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and a polyglot database layer (MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB)—reflects a mature, high-traffic operation. Current hiring is heavily engineering-focused (19 of 26 open roles), with mid-level developers dominating the mix, and all four AWS container services (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS) are in adoption phase—indicating an active cloud migration to handle millions of concurrent searches and scale the backend infrastructure that supports 6.5M registered users.
Skroutz operates the dominant e-commerce marketplace in Greece, connecting millions of consumers with thousands of online retailers. The platform handles price comparison, full marketplace transactions, mobile shopping, and logistics coordination across a network of automated parcel machines. Recent projects reveal a shift toward mobile-first experience (iOS and Android app overhauls), automated order handling (returns processing, warehouse scanning), and AI-driven features (shopping assistant, support agent) to improve user retention and reduce friction. The company is headquartered in Athens and maintains engineering and ops presence across Greece and Bulgaria.
Ruby on Rails and React for web; Node.js/TypeScript for APIs. Backend storage spans MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB; caching via Redis and Memcached. Kafka for event streaming; Elasticsearch for search. Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, Sentry. Currently adopting AWS EKS, ECS, Lambda, and RDS for cloud migration.
Mobile app overhauls (iOS and Android), mobile-first transition, AI shopping and support agents, automated warehouse and returns handling, a loyalty program (Skroutz Plus), and real-time delivery routing to automated parcel machines.
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