BONUS SKILLS:

• You should have a proven track record of shipping cross-platform code.
• You are familiar with TypeScript for React projects.
• You have experience working with Kubernetes.
• You have experience working in teams across differing time zones.
• You have experience in the E-commerce industry.

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

Zalando’s latest and greatest team (Echo) is being created within the Search and Browse - Experience department responsible for an assortment of business-critical functionalities relating to Zalando’s Search and Category pages. Team Echo will be working exclusively on our high-profile Inspiration and Entertainment programme of work actively looking to engage and inspire Zalando’s 50 million customers across 25 countries on their online shopping journey.
We’ve recently taken the exciting decision to open an office in Shenzhen, China. The new team, (Echo) will be the backbone ensuring our established European teams and our new Asian teams collaborate and work effectively together. As a team, we aim to move fast whilst always ensuring Operational Excellence is at the forefront of our mind.
In this particular role you would be working as part of a team consisting of 5 engineers split across both web and mobile platforms, led by an Engineering Manager. Your core responsibility will be ensuring efficient and quality engineering between Shenzhen and our already established European Android team and codebase, to include but not limited to: ways of working, technology selection and production ownership. As the Echo Team is in its infancy you may be involved in helping to hire and establish the team.
We’re very excited about this new venture within Zalando and are looking for a motivated individual with relevant experience to come in and drive this area forward.

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

• You will help establish a new team in the business, potentially including hiring involvement.
• You will support and contribute to a diverse team of 5 engineers while ensuring smooth delivery and continuous improvements to business critical systems.
• You will help establish effective ways of working and efficient code contribution methods between Asian and European engineering teams.
• You will support and drive architectural and design decisions in the team, contribute to the priorities, and advise on technology selection.
• You will ensure operational excellence is paramount in our approach to engineering.
• You will help advise on Search and Browse - Experience priorities providing an engineering input into Product requirements.
• Act like an owner by taking up a challenge, work towards reducing ambiguity, and break the work down into manageable tasks for the team.
• Share and develop your expertise with your team to deliver the best user experience to our customers.