Backend Engineer

About Zalando

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion; a public company with a strong workforce of more than 15,000 employees of over 100 different nationalities. Zalandos are united by ambitious objectives to impact the fashion industry and add value to all players in the fashion ecosystem.

Zalando transformed from an e-commerce company into a multi-service platform for fashion. From logistics, to big brands, to fashion bloggers - we’re building the engine that connects all people and the fashion ecosystem.

Position

• Creating scalable solutions and get involved with the entire development cycle - from architecture design to implementation, testing and maintenance
• Own your code and contribute to decisions on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on cloud (AWS or Kubernetes), based on a microservices architecture
• Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions
• Take part on service operational duties, including monitoring and keeping systems up and running
• Be an amazing team player, and provide support and guidance to other engineers to help develop their technical capabilities.

Your qualification

• A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals combined with a strong capacity of solving complex problems. Above 3 years of experience in backend engineering.
• Solid programming skills in Java. Python and Scala are a plus.
• Experience with building microservices in Java using Spring Boot or similar.
• Knowledge of cloud architectures as well as experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
• Knowledge in technologies like Kubernetes and Docker but not limited to them
• Knowledge in architecture/design methods and patterns, data and API specifications, quality assurance and testing methods
• Pragmatic and curious, find the right tool for the right job. We solve business problems in the best possible way, but completion is better than perfection
• Great communication skills in English

What we offer

• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 100+ internal and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties and events
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, training platform and training budget, free language courses (English / German), pension scheme, 40% Zalando shopping discount on most products from our catalogue, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, diverse sports and health offerings
• Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and access to an international team of experts
• Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available only in select locations)