ABOUT THE TEAM
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
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to developing 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.
Ensure a state-of-the-art software development methodology
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 your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills
Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and with a large spectrum of competencies
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
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 SE
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Welcome to Zalando. Here’s some key info about us:
Our position and vision:
- We’re Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle
- Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to more than 50 million active customers in 25 markets; offering clothes, footwear, accessories, and beauty
- Our vision is to become The Starting Point For Fashion.
Our offering:
- Our assortment of international brands ranges from world-famous names to local labels
- Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation, and interaction
- As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners, and friends of our brand.
- Our logistics network with 12 centrally located fulfillment centers allows us to efficiently serve our customers throughout Europe, supported by warehouses in Italy, France, Poland, and Sweden with a focus on local customer needs.
Our beliefs:
- Our ambition is to combine our passion for self-expression through fashion with our unwavering commitments to sustainability and D&I
- We believe that our integration of fashion, operations, and online technology gives us the capability to deliver a compelling value proposition to both our customers and fashion brand partners.
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