THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Senior Software Engineer, you implement customer facing solutions that engage and entertain Zalando +50 million customers. As more customers look for inspiration, you will be developing exciting destinations and reactivating our customers based on what they follow.
Our team is responsible for fulfilling our customers’ needs for inspiration by creating appealing author destinations and triggering follow-on communications based on customer’s explicit and implicit interests. This requires operating microservices that stretch from purely backend solutions all the way to rendering frontend components.

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

• Create scalable solutions that serve Zalando customers while owning the entire development cycle - from architecture design to implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Be part of a team owning the code and deciding on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications, based on a microservices architecture.
• Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions by writing technical documents and breaking down feature requests into manageable stories and tasks.
• Play a leading role in evolving and scaling our systems as per our business demands.
• Take part in the services’ operational duties, monitoring, and keeping them up running and healthy.
• Write code that is modular, readable, easily testable, and maintainable. Implement and fully test new features before deploying them to production.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and mentor others towards a culture of high quality code.
• Support and shape Zalando’s engineering community by sharing best practices, supporting peers, and interviewing additional engineering talents.