Backend Software Developer

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

As a backend software engineer within Merchant Operations department, you will be expected to be a strong problem solver, with a solid grasp of computer science fundamentals.

• Purpose. You have the opportunity to shape the future in one of the hottest topics in e-commerce today: you are a key player for creating the next generation of order management and article creation systems, task management systems and shape high volume data coming through our systems.
• Autonomy. Based on our microservices architecture, you and your team will own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on cloud (AWS).
• Impact. You will work with dedicated teams to create a highly scalable solution and to build products that will shape the next generation of marketplace processes. You and your team will work like a startup and take ownership for the whole development cycle - from architecture design to testing to implementation and maintenance.
• Variety. You continually build knowledge and stay informed of current market trends and technologies.

Your qualification

You have acquired in-depth understanding of agile methodologies and you are up-to-date on industry standards. You are interested in current trends in software design, architecture and web services and passionate about well-structured, readable and testable code.

• Technology. You have knowledge of JVM based technology stacks and in designing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud architectures as well as experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS. We use a variety of languages and even if you don’t know Scala, we certainly expect you to enjoy learning it with us.
• Effective networker. We believe in autonomous teams that can own and drive topics. You understand the needs of markets, customers and all stakeholders and as well as business and operational processes. You play a critical role in the team as a creative input and you collaborate with stakeholders during the development process.

What we offer

• Community. Tech culture of trust and empowerment, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, +100 internal technical and fun guilds, tech talks, product demos, Coderdojos, parties and events.
• Perks. Competitive salary, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, public transport discounts, relocation assistance for internationals, free drinks and fruits.
• Development. Tour of Mastery, extensive onboarding, personal branding support, opportunity to attend and speak at conferences and meetups, and encouragement to publish work.
• Work Environment. Self-organized, autonomous teams and flexible working hours.
• Scale. Unparalleled levels of data and opportunities.

Additional details

The Opportunity

We are convinced that the best way for us to achieve growth and at the same time continue to drive forward digitalization in the e-commerce industry is with our platform-based business model.

At Zalando Merchant Operations we are building applications and services that connect fashion merchants with Zalando customers. We solve hard architectural and algorithmic problems. We set ambitious availability, throughput, latency and reliability goals. We value the quality of our designs and the cleanliness of our code. We think hard and move fast. We build for Zalando scale.

Our backend systems are mostly written in Scala, however we are able to work with several languages and easily adapt our development approach to the problem, so should you.