THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Backend Engineer, you will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will be building systems that will solve major customer challenges around Sports & Beauty in fashion & lifestyle e-commerce and build systems to take customer experience to the next level.
In the Customer Engagement team we aim to understand customer needs and interests through proposition-specific profiles (e.g. Beauty & Sports Profile) and Zalando Fashion Assistant (ZFA) and increase customer relevancy in product presentation and recommendations.
Find out more about our Software engineer team: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/what-we-do/software-engineering

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

• Be a part of an agile, experienced cross-functional engineering team to build systems for Sports & Beauty Propositions with a major focus on serving capabilities for our clients.
• Design, build and maintain large-scale backend microservices using technologies such as Java / Scala, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Decide on the technologies and tools to deliver and operate scalable microservice-based applications on AWS.
• Ensure a state-of-the-art software development methodology.
• Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and with a large spectrum of competencies.
• Share your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills.
• Help us become better, provide active feedback, mentor and support the development of more junior colleagues.