Backend Engineer - Ranking and Retrieval (All Genders)

Zalando GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading European fashion platform in Berlin is seeking a Backend Engineer to enhance the Retrieval and Ranking systems, impacting over 50 million customers. The role involves designing scalable backend technologies using Scala and Kubernetes, and requires expertise in microservices and database systems. This offers an innovative environment, competitive salary, and diverse perks.

Leistungen

Competitive salary

40% shopping discount

Flexible working times

Relocation assistance

Diverse sports and health offerings

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing resilient distributed microservices.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure tools.
• Experience with SQL or no-SQL database systems.

Aufgaben

• Develop Retrieval and Ranking systems in a backend engineering team.
• Maintain scalable backend technologies like Scala and Elasticsearch.
• Optimize search ranking and recommendation logic.

Kenntnisse

Microservices design

REST API design

Event-driven architecture

Scaling databases

JVM-based languages

Agile processes

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

As a Backend Engineer in the Search and Browse Discovery team, you will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will take the Ranking and Retrieval systems to the next level, currently, we have around 15M searchable articles in our Elasticsearch (around ~600 nodes with ~150 indexes) and everything including Elasticsearch is hosted on Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to develop the Retrieval and Ranking systems.
• Design, build and maintain scalable backend technologies such as Scala, Java, Elasticsearch, Nakadi, and Kubernetes systems that enhance personalized search and browse experiences.
• Optimize search ranking and recommendation logic through backend engineering.
• Write and review solution designs for complex backend challenges.
• Drive operational excellence, ensuring system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Share knowledge with colleagues to help them grow their technical skills.
• Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and a large spectrum of competencies.

What We’re Looking For

• Ability to design large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS).
• Experience with REST APIs design and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with scaling a large-scale database system (SQL or no-SQL).
• Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala); experience with Scala is a plus.
• Advocating for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development.

Perks At Work

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 on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 35+ million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Please note that all the applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.

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Please note that all applications from this job page must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail. Once reviewed, our recruiters will contact applicants via an official Zalando email address (@zalando.de).

In some cases we also work with a selection of headhunters and agencies to fill specific roles. Please note that neither Zalando nor our recruiting partners will ask for any kind of payment to apply for a job or attend an interview.

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Software Engineering

Our Software Engineering teams deploy software extensively, managing a broad set of applications and conducting thousands of deployments per week. The Software Engineering team enables Zalando as Europe’s number one multi-brand, digital platform for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle for our partners and customers. As a Zalando Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a community of thousands of colleagues across Europe.

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey to build the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce. Help us offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 50 million active customers in 25 markets. Or be part of our logistic infrastructure, software or service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. Join our Zalando ecosystem, to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.