Senior Backend Engineer - Echo (all genders)

The Zalando eCommerce Platform Sciences team assists customers in their fashion discovery journey and helps them find what they are looking for across Zalando. In the echo department, we drive the vision of making Zalando the place for customers to discover quality content, find personalized inspiration, and build a deeper connection. We are transforming content discovery systems by utilizing innovative approaches and creating inspirational experiences for our customers.

As a Backend Engineer

You will be part of the engineering team, working with exceptional engineers and applied scientists to enable Zalando customers to explore and discover fashion uniquely. You will collaborate with your product counterparts to define and deliver new discovery methods across all Zalando experiences, impacting over 50 million customers in 25 countries. Your work will address major customer challenges related to inspiration and entertainment in fashion and lifestyle e-commerce, elevating the customer experience.

Candidate Profile

We seek a strong individual with a proven track record of delivering highly scalable, critical-path services, eager to grow professionally by building systems that influence the onsite experience of millions of Zalando customers.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious beliefs, or disability. Candidates are encouraged to omit pictures, age, or marital status from applications. We evaluate candidates solely on qualifications and merit.

We aim to provide a positive candidate experience and welcome any accommodations needed during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Join an agile backend engineering team focusing on entertainment and inspiration features.
• Design, build, and maintain large-scale microservices using Java, Kotlin, Scala, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Decide on technologies and tools for scalable microservice applications on AWS.
• Collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Share knowledge, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to team growth.
• Possess 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Design resilient distributed microservices on cloud infrastructure, preferably Kubernetes and AWS.
• Experience with JVM-based languages, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and scaling large databases.
• Advocate for agile processes, operational excellence, and best coding practices.
• Excellent communication skills in English, including technical documentation.
• Strong analytical skills.

Our Offerings

We provide a culture of trust, empowerment, open source engagement, tech meetups, game nights, numerous guilds, knowledge sharing, tech talks, an internal tech academy, blogs, product demos, and social events. Benefits include competitive salary, employee share options, shopping discounts, flexible working, additional holidays, wellness offerings, onboarding, mentoring, relocation support, and a diverse, inclusive environment.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

Zalando connects over 50 million active customers across 25 markets, driving digital solutions in fashion, logistics, advertising, and research, with a team that values diversity and multilingual collaboration.

Contact

Irina Ponomarenko

irina.ponomarenko.external@zalando.de

Please complete applications via our online form; we do not accept email applications. Our recruiters will contact suitable candidates via an official Zalando email. We also work with headhunters and agencies for specific roles; no payment is required for application or interviews.

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