THE ROLE & THE TEAM

The Zalando eCommerce Platform Sciences team assists customers in their fashion discovery journey and helps them find what they are looking for across Zalando. In the echo department we drive the vision of having Zalando be the place for customers to discover quality content, find personalised inspiration and make a truly deeper connection. We are transforming the content discovery systems, utilising innovative approaches and building inspirational experiences for our customers.
As a Sr. Principal Engineer you will work with exceptional engineers, science, analysts, and product leaders to spearhead the strategy, design, and implementation of data & ML systems that are scalable, repeatable, and secure. We are looking for a strong technical leader with a background in distributed systems to help build experiences that allow customers to explore and discover fashion in a unique style. You will partner with your Product counterparts to define and deliver new ways to discover fashion and lifestyle across all Zalando experiences.
Teams at our Zurich Tech Hub work on many of the cornerstones of our Fashion Store, including personalization and recommendation components. Through full stack engineering and research, we turn visionary ideas into new emerging businesses with real potential. By tackling diverse challenges for the fashion industry, we drive the personal digital experience and underlying knowledge models to create the most inspirational fashion experience for our customers.

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

• Guide the engineering department that helps customers discover quality content, find personalised inspiration and have deeper engagement with Zalando.
• Scale up the teams building innovative solutions leveraging latest in machine learning technologies including generative AI and large language models.
• Support and lead teams in achieving a high level of engineering quality, throughput, performance and reliability.
• Drive operational excellence as part of your team culture.
• Mentor seniors to principal engineers and actively collaborate with other teams. Share knowledge and expertise within our talented engineering, product, data and science community.
• Developing and implementing strategies and approaches to solving complex problems and challenges to help achieve business goals and objectives.
• Working closely with applied science and engineering leaders, product managers and other business stakeholders to bring our state-of-the-art solutions to the customers and to discover and identify new opportunities.