Senior Backend Engineer - Forecasting & Planning (all genders)

at  Zalando

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 inspiration & entertainment in fashion & lifestyle e-commerce and build systems to take customer experience to the next level.
In Forecasting & Planning team we support authors to deliver fresh and relevant experiences for Zalando’s end customers. Authors will be equipped to brainstorm and plan their content strategies, and align them with global and local business goals. We facilitate the forecasting of content volume and content performance, but also the detection and visualization of trends.

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

• Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to build systems for Forecasting and Planning with a major focus on serving capabilities for our clients.
• Design, build and maintain large-scale backend microservices using technologies such as Java, Scala, 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