Senior Front-end Engineer (all genders)

Zalando; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading e-commerce platform in Berlin is seeking a Frontend Engineer to enhance the customer experience for over 50 million users. In this role, you will design and maintain applications using modern technologies while mentoring junior colleagues. Candidates should have 5 years of experience, proficiency in TypeScript and React, and a customer-centric approach. This position offers a hybrid working model, competitive benefits, and development opportunities.

Leistungen

Employee shares program

40% off Zalando products

27 days of vacation

Qualifikationen

• 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React / React Native.
• Hands-on experience improving front-end performance.

Aufgaben

• Design, build and maintain large-scale applications.
• Improve front-end performance using tools like Sentry.
• Interact with various teams and stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

TypeScript

React / React Native

Node.js

GraphQL

CSS

Tools

Sentry

Kubernetes

REST API

Jobbeschreibung

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Frontend Engineer you will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will be building systems that will solve major customer challenges around Sports & Beauty in fashion & lifestyle e‑commerce and build systems to take customer experience to the next level.

In the Customer Engagement team we aim to understand customer needs and interests through proposition‑specific profiles (e.g. Beauty & Sports Profile) and Zalando Fashion Assistant (ZFA) and increase customer relevancy in product presentation and recommendations.

Find out more about our Software engineering team: BY DESIGN.

We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, racial identities, ethnicities, religious beliefs and disability statuses. Please avoid including your picture, age or marital status in your CV.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please inform us of any accommodations you may need so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain large‑scale applications using technologies such as TypeScript, React / React Native, Node.js, GraphQL and Kubernetes.
• Improve front‑end performance and observability using tools like Sentry.
• Ensure a state‑of‑the‑art software development methodology.
• Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and a wide spectrum of competencies.
• Share your knowledge with colleagues, helping them grow their technical skills.
• Help us provide active feedback, mentor and support the development of more junior colleagues.

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React / React Native, CSS and experience with GraphQL.
• Experience with REST API design and building large‑scale applications with Node.js.
• Experience in all parts of the software development life cycle: building, testing, deploying and operating in production.
• Hands‑on experience improving front‑end performance and observability.
• Advocacy for agile processes, operational excellence and coding best practices such as clean code, readability and test‑driven development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, plus experience writing technical documentation.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams, managers and product stakeholders from different backgrounds.
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial, analytical and customer‑centric approach.

Benefits

• Employee shares program.
• 40 % off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando.
• 30 % off Lounge by Zalando and other external partners.
• 2 paid volunteering days a year.
• Hybrid working model with up to 60 % remote per week (actual practice is up to each team).
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year.
• 27 days of vacation a year for full‑time employees.
• Relocation assistance (subject to prior agreement).
• Family services including counseling and support.
• Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub formerly Gympass).
• Mental health support and coaching.
• Development through our training platform and biannual peer‑to‑peer review.

Key Skills

Bootstrap, CSS, Front‑End Development, HTML5, React, Redux, Node.js, Angular, Less, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Sass.

Other Information

Required Experience: Senior IC.

Employment Type: Full‑Time.

Experience: years.

Vacancy: 1.

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!