THE TEAM

We solve things that matter to the customer and business. Our product organization is embedded in the team enabling us to design, measure, and monitor meaningful innovations that provide the most reliable order processing experience.
Our domain area is large and it takes time to become familiar with it. We focus on long-term relationships. We like to mentor and coach new team members so that they grow professionally and feel comfortable at work. You will enjoy the team, get opportunities to learn new technologies and experience many challenges.
Our code runs for years at scale and we value easy-to-understand and maintainable solutions. Therefore, we employ API-first and make robust architectural decisions.
The team is located in Berlin in the heart of Zalandos’s offices. At the same time we successfully practice a hybrid work culture.

Looking to work on a job that has a meaningful impact on millions of customers? Join our Tech Logistics “ Engineering team as a Principal Software Engineer and help us with delivering a high-performance, stable, auto-scaling software system that will have a direct impact on our customers’ happiness.
The Logistics Engineering Team develops Zalando’s own Warehouse Management System that ensures on-time delivery of millions of parcels every week from more than 12 facilities.
As a Principal Software Engineer in Logistics Engineering, you will be responsible for defining and designing the target architecture of our Warehouse Management System in alignment with Product, Management, and the delivery teams. You will support the teams with experience and best practices to find the best solutions, review and challenge solution proposals, and make sure that our products remain extensible in the future. By proactively establishing best practices and patterns along the Software Development Lifecycle you make sure that teams deliver high quality and architecturally consistent software. As a mentor, you support individuals in their career growth and as a role model, you will foster collaboration across teams and departments.You will benefit from the experience in a larger company with specialists organized in technical communities.
You’ll be working alongside a group of talented engineers to create innovative solutions for managing orders, products, physical entities as well as processes & tools for workflow management & optimization of the workflow within our warehouses. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and make a difference. Come join us and help us build the future of logistics!