THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

As a Front-end Engineer, you will contribute to the success of the “Daily Starting Point for Builders” in Zalando, Sunrise. This product is central to the success of our department’s strategy. You will be shaping an extendable platform that will help our 250+ teams develop and operate ~4K applications and discover all that is needed to manage ~30K+ weekly builds with ~5k+ weekly deployments at Zalando.
Our team drives the centralization of all meaningful information, tooling & resources needed by Builders of digital solutions (software engineers, data scientists and their stakeholders), presenting it in a beautiful and consistent way.
“What’s the API specification for that service?”, “This service is down, how can I solve it?”, ”Who owns it?”, “How can I find the documentation of it?” Our system centralizes and organizes answers to all these questions and more.

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

• Build beautiful front ends based on Backstage for the tooling that helps teams build, deploy and operate software at Zalando.
• Run, maintain, and extend a platform that improves productivity for 250+ teams and is easy to collaborate on.
• Design and implement solutions to simplify our systems, reduce technical debt, and improve scalability and reliability of our platform.
• Show a strong customer/user focus and translate business requirements into effective technical solutions..
• Take high levels of ownership and accountability, leading critical projects and collaborating across team boundaries.