51 million customers generating more than 10 billion euros sales in 25 markets across Europe - all this goes through your hands. We process 3.3 million shopping items which result in hundreds of thousands of orders, every single day. Join our international and diverse team handling one of the most crucial systems, the Zalando Shopping Cart. We embrace high challenge and high support. We enable our software engineers to work as efficiently, creatively and meaningfully as possible.
THE ROLE & THE TEAM
As a backend engineer in our Cart team, you'll have the opportunity to work with top-notch engineers, living high standards and best practices, in order to provide the easiest and most frictionless shopping cart experience possible. We are responsible for a large landscape of microservices using Java, SpringBoot, AWS, and Kubernetes, enabling customers to interact with products in the Zalando shopping cart. You will interact with a variety of teams inside Zalando to provide customers with delivery estimates, fees, price data, and stock information.
What you build and put in production is impacting every single Zalando customer on the spot, including yourself!
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
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Take the ownership for designing, developing, deploying and operating customer facing solutions
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Deliver high quality software by paying strong attention to API design, automated tests, scalability and resilience
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Work in a cross functional team consisting of developers, designers, product managers and product analysts
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Operate, monitor and optimize our infrastructure running on Kubernetes and AWS
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Proactively mentor, share knowledge and learn from your peers
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
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Experience working in cross-functional agile teams
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Experience with Java or any other functional programming language with a strong emphasis on multithreading and concurrency
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Hands on experience in designing, developing and preferably operating microservices on a highly distributed system (preferably on AWS)
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Strong passion for developing clean, well maintainable, and testable code
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Working experience with a high level of test automation (Unit, Component, Integration, User Journey…)
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Actual experience with 24/7 on-call rotation is a plus, but not required
PERKS AT WORK
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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
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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
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Extensive on-boarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
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Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms
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.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 25 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to about 51 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.
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.
