Junior Software Engineer (all genders)

Zalando SE; Dortmund; Vor Ort; EUR 50.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

27 days holiday

Employee shares programme

Wellbeing options

Relocation assistance

Volunteer days

Zusammenfassung

Junior Backend Engineer for Zalando Payments will design, develop, test, and operate core APIs enabling secure, engaging payments for customers. You'll work in a fintech-enabled fashion platform, building scalable microservices and interfacing with merchant systems in a production environment.

You will participate in CI/CD, code reviews, and test-driven development, ensuring high standards. You'll contribute to cloud-based deployments (AWS) and share knowledge within the team.

Qualifikationen

• Requires degree in computer science or related field or equivalent IT background.
• Eager to learn new technologies and practices; able to work in a complex environment.

Aufgaben

• Design, develop and operate core APIs for Zalando Payments.
• Maintain code quality with CI/CD, tests and reviews.
• Collaborate across teams on microservices and cloud-based architecture.

Kenntnisse

Java ecosystem

Spring Boot

RESTful services

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Jobbeschreibung

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As Junior Backend Engineer for Zalando Payments, you will design, develop, test, and operate our core APIs that allow our customers to pay in a secure and engaging fashion. Fashion retail imposes many interesting challenges on the payment experience that we address through tailored deferred payment options and other products. The services you will build in this role steer these processes and directly interface with the merchant systems. You will make sure the product complies with the demanding and high standards of the fintech industry.

About Zalando Payments

Positioned at the bustling intersection of eCommerce and FinTech, Zalando Payments helps ensure that Zalando's customers can securely pay how they want when they want.

Zalando Payments builds the technologies for all financial transactions in the Zalando fashion store and our other consumer-facing apps. We work to deliver a flawless user experience in the checkout, as well as the processing of payments and reconciliation in the backend.

Learn more about Zalando Payments: https://sites.google.com/zalando.de/zalando-payments/what-we-do

WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

Create highly scalable solutions and own the entire application lifecycle. You will design technical solutions within your team's architecture, and you are responsible for implementation, testing, and operation in the production environment.

You will be part of a team where best practices like continuous integration, code quality, code reviews, test-driven development, etc. are kept at very high standards, therefore you should also be positive and firm in your attitude towards them.

Together with your team you will own your code and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on cloud (AWS), based on a microservices architecture.

Share your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• You have a degree in computer science or a related field, or are an experienced IT Specialist. You are interested in making an impact by building and operating production services. Ideally, you have already built and operated production services in the past, ideally in the field of e-commerce or payments - if not, we will support you on the journey.
• We do expect you to embrace the opportunity to actively learn new technologies and practices.
• We are working in a big and complex environment. We expect you to be able to coordinate and communicate effectively with your peers in your team just as well as beyond team boundaries.
• Great communication skills and the ability to support technical decision-making with the team
• You bring excellent problem-solving skills, with a logical and pragmatic attitude
• Ideally, you are familiar with the Java ecosystem and frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot), You know how to find your way around microservice architecture, REST services, asynchronous distributed systems, etc.

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here's an overview of what you can expect.

Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)
• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
• Family support, including counselling and dedicated services for parents and carers
• Company pension scheme
• Employee shares programme
• Health and wellbeing options, including Wellhub
• Mental health support and coaching
• Development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Relocation assistance (subject to prior agreement)

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle - one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.

We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know - we are here to assist you.

Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion