As a Backend Software Engineer in the Sustainability & Adaptive Engineering Team, you will be joining a greenfield mission to develop Zalando's competence in Sustainable and D&I fashion. You will be at the forefront of how we define, own & build the experience that fulfills Zalando’s customer promise on Sustainability and D&I. Ultimately, you will enable customers to live their social and environmental values through democratizing their fashion experience and enriching their consumer choices. You will also enable the disabled community to easily find new pieces that bring more comfort and ease, while reflecting individual style and flair. In turn, positioning the Zalando platform as their first destination for sustainable fashion.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
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Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services to ensure seamless and efficient solutions, fulfilling both technical and business needs.
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Work closely with cross-platform engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
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Making and owning architectural decisions with other engineering seniors, contributing to the priorities, evangelizing the documentation, learning from incidents and demonstrating operational excellence.
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Establishing trust and technical excellence not just within the Sustainability team, but collaborating and evangelizing within wider internal product and engineering teams.
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Ensuring we engineer reliable and technically compliant solutions.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
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3+ years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer using JVM based languages like Java, Kotlin, etc.
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Hands-on experience working with SQL storage technologies. A keen interest in working with Data and a data analytical mindset. Experience with data engineering technologies and NoSQL technologies is a big plus.
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Experience working with cloud native application development.
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An avid advocate of engineering best practices (clean code, readability, test-drive-development, etc.) and operational excellence (Site Reliability Engineering practices).
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Ability to work in a greenfield product area and cope with the resulting uncertainty; readiness to solve customer problems by taking unconventional approaches like contributing to the codebase and features owned by other teams.
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Intrinsic drive and passion for helping millions of our customers choose a more responsible approach to buying fashion by considering the impact on our environment and society.
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Very good communication skills and experience working in diverse environments, building customer-facing experiences.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 23 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 45 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Is this the role you were looking for?
Our values: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-founding-mindset
do.More - our sustainability strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/sustainability
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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.
