Senior Backend Engineer - Customer Facing Applications

Lounge by Zalando is an online shopping club for fashion and lifestyle products across Europe. We offer our members daily, time-limited sale campaigns with discounts of up to 75% off the recommended retail price.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in our team, you’ll be part of a motivated and diverse cross functional team of web and mobile app engineers and will be working closely with Product Managers and Product Designers.

You’ll be responsible for maintaining and creating backend services that power the critical customer-facing web and mobile applications targeting identity and access management, onboarding and overall new customer experience. You will work with tools and technologies such as Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka/Nakadi, Postgres, and DynamoDB in building high-performant, low latency systems to create an impact on end users.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.

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

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy

Our employee resource groups: [https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups>

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Design, develop, deploy, operate and improve scalable software solutions that have a direct impact on our daily business with our customers.
• You’ll act beyond the team’s scope and gain more and more visibility vis-à-vis other teams, and Engineering Management, through alignment of solution designs and ownership of significant deliverables in cross-team projects.
• Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions. You’ll closely collaborate with Product Management (and other roles) to refine the functional requirements and build test cases to be verified during development and feature release.
• Perform code reviews, share knowledge and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Lead by example, mentor and help your colleagues grow their technical skills.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• You have a deep understanding of microservice architecture, REST services and event based systems in order to build scalable solutions
• You have experience with Java. Knowledge of the Spring Boot framework is a plus.
• You have a good understanding of SQL and NoSQL (preferably PostgreSQL and AWS DynamoDB).
• Familiarity with Go, AWS and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Passion for working in an agile, cross-functional team, iterating quickly during the product development cycle. As well as, ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering peers.
• You are self-motivated and have a proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.

OUR 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 Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Hybrid working model with 60% (or more) 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
• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
• Family services, including counseling and support
• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
• Mental health support and coaching available
• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: [https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh%5Fsrc=22377bdd1us>