Senior Backend Engineer (Java / Kotlin)

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 Senior Backend Engineer, you will build the inventory management solutions that ensure Zalando has the right product available at the right time. Your systems will be used by hundreds of internal users and +1000 of our suppliers.

Where Your Expertise Is Needed

• Design and implement microservices that power our merchandise processes and enable decision support and process automation
• Drive architecture and features from the business goals, ensuring value delivery, stability and cost efficiency with a close collaboration with product management
• Ensure rock-solid operation of systems, meeting ambitious SLAs and continuously improving the setup, to ensure that merchandise worth a billion euro a year can be ordered
• Collaborate with other technology and business teams to ensure that our solutions are well integrated in the larger context of Zalando

Your qualification

• 5+ years of professional experience in Java and/or Kotlin and with relevant frameworks (e.g., Spring)
• Experience with complex internal systems such as ERP or Supply Chain Management
• Hands on experience in system architecture and RESTful API design
• Great communication and stakeholder management skills

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
• 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)