Engineering Manager - Marketing Platform (all genders)

As the Engineering Manager of the Customer-Facing Reporting team within the Zalando Marketing Platform, you will lead the end-to-end design, development, and operation of our partner reporting solutions. Our mission is to empower partners with actionable insights and performance data—enabling them to understand, optimize, and grow their advertising impact both on and beyond Zalando’s platforms.

We’re at a pivotal moment. As we expand our reporting capabilities, we are reimagining the architecture, redefining team responsibilities, and evolving our ways of working. Our goal is clear: to become the primary reporting and insights platform for our advertising partners.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of customer-facing advertising analytics at Zalando. You’ll work on high-availability, business-critical systems alongside a passionate, skilled, and collaborative team. If you're excited by technical challenges, inspired by impact at scale, and motivated to help connect the right ads with the right shoppers at the right time—this role is for you.

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce - one that is inclusive by design. We only assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, racial identities, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and disability statuses. We only want to know why you’re great for this role, so please avoid including your picture, age, and marital status in your CV as well.

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

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion

• Grow and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team at the Marketing Platform domain that can create and operate complex and distributed systems with narrow error budgets.

• Spot opportunities for collaboration within Zalando to create synergy across different services and offerings.

• Help to shape our Advertising platform, contributing to our vision, ways of working, processes, etc.

• Simplify ways of working, align with other teams priorities and deliveries making us more productive while keeping engineers' engagement high.

• Shape the cross-functional collaboration with our product, content, ad delivery,  reporting and other disciplines required for the business.

• You have a strong manager track record in recruiting, growing, and leading engineering teams, with at least 3 years of previous team management

• You can confidently drive cross-team & cross-functional projects and oversee major development stage gates from discovery to delivery

• You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in software engineering and/or data engineering with strong tech expertise building customer facing applications.

• You are experienced in high-level architecture & designs with Microservices, APIs, Data modelling and common patterns of distributed systems communication

• If you have domain knowledge in the advertising, digital marketing, media or e-commerce industry, it's a strong plus

• You are experienced in modern application infrastructure/middleware/libraries like AWS, K8s is a strong plus.

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.

• 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.

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from 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 to best support their collaboration

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• 27 days of vacation a year to start for full-time employees

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching available

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando’s journey, from being a pioneer in the world of e-commerce, to becoming the Starting Point for Fashion in Europe. We connect customers, brands, and partners across 25 markets.

Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 49 million active customers.

Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS) is the 360° marketing unit of Europe ’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, Zalando. We work with the world’s largest fashion and lifestyle brands and provide them with impactful solutions across all marketing touchpoints, access to relevant audiences and in-depth data knowledge, as well as inspiring creation and content.

At ZMS we create meaningful connections between brands and consumers through a deep understanding of their personalities. We work with brands, agencies and publishers from fashion and beyond to produce innovative, impactful campaigns that reach the right audience at the right moment. Thanks to its holistic mix of cutting-edge and privacy compliant technology, in-depth audience insights, expansive reach and compelling content brands produce successful campaigns across multiple digital marketing channels.

For more information check out this link:https://zms.zalando.com/