THE ROLE & THE TEAM
The Zalando eCommerce Platform Sciences team assists customers in their fashion discovery journey and helps them find what they are looking for across Zalando. In the echo department we drive the vision of having Zalando be the place for customers to discover quality content, find personalised inspiration and make a truly deeper connection. We are transforming the content discovery systems, utilising innovative approaches and building inspirational experiences for our customers.
As a Backend engineer, you will be part of the engineering team and work with exceptional engineers and applied scientists to enable customers of Zalando explore and discover fashion in a unique style. You will partner with your Product counterparts to define and deliver new ways to discover fashion and lifestyle across all Zalando experiences. You will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will be building systems that will solve major customer challenges around inspiration & entertainment in fashion & lifestyle e-commerce and build systems to take customer experience to the next level.
We are looking for a strong individual with a track record of delivering highly scalable, critical-path services who are looking to further grow in their professional career by building systems that directly influence the onsite experience of millions of Zalando customers.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
Our employee resource groups:
https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups
WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
- Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to build systems for IEntertainment and Inspiration with a major focus on serving capabilities for our clients.
- Design, build and maintain large-scale backend microservices using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
- Decide on the technologies and tools to deliver and operate scalable microservice-based applications on AWS
- Ensure a state-of-the-art software development methodology
- Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and with a large spectrum of competencies
- Share your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills
- Help us become better, provide active feedback, mentor and support the development of more junior colleagues
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
- 5+ years of professional experience software development experience
- Ability to design large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS)
- Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala).
- Experience with REST APIs design and event-driven architectures
- Experience with scaling a large-scale Database system (SQL or no-SQL)
- Advocating for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, experience in writing technical documentation
- Collaboration with engineering teams, managers, and product stakeholders from different backgrounds.
- Strong analytical skills.
OUR OFFER
- Culture of trust, empowerment, and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
- Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
- Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
- Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
Zalando SE
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands, and partners across 25 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising, and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 50+ million active customers through diverse skill sets, interests, and languages our teams choose to use.
