Principal Engineer for Transactional Core

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

Zalando is looking for a Principal Engineer who will have the opportunity to help Zalando to provide easy and most frictionless checkout service to the customers. You will be responsible for architecting, developing and operating in production microservices using Scala, Java, JavaScript, Cassandra, AWS, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own checkout architecture in a time zone of 2-3 years
• Drive and own service reliability
• Design and develop high scalable and resilient microservices
• Define and implement service quality standards
• Collaborate across teams and departments inside Zalando
• Be a mentor for other engineers in the team

Your qualification

• 8+ years of experience which at least 3+ are in designing and running high scalable and resilient distributed systems in cloud environment
• Expert in at least one JVM language
• Experience in designing, running and troubleshooting business critical services at scale
• Experience in introducing new technologies to the team
• 6+ months experience in leading software initiatives which impacted multiple business units and required multiple teams to collaborate over longer period of time
• Drive technical innovation across the organisation
• Passion for writing highly maintainable, testable and resilient code
• Mentorship experience

What we 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
• Employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services
• Flexible working hours, 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 only in select locations)