THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Backend Engineer within our Zalando Direct (Zalando’s Marketplace) department, you will be joining our cross-functional Sales Performance team which helps our Partners to understand and improve their performance on the Zalando Platform. 

You will be involved in designing systems that will help to provide insights to partners to enable them to be proactive and therefore more successful on the zDirect platform. You will make it possible for partners to derive insights based on data from more than 45 million active customers across 23 countries.

Zalando Direct is the technological backbone of Zalando’s Partner Program. We’ve developed a suite of sophisticated, data-driven tools and services that aim to further accelerate value-creation on the Zalando platform. These tools are built to empower brands, offering them frictionless access for both web and mobile interfaces, as well as API solutions, all backed by automation and sophisticated services to enable smart decision-making.  We provide our partners with invaluable context, benchmarks, and insights into their performance in a multi-branded environment.

WHY YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED

• Creating scalable solutions and get involved with the entire development cycle - from architecture design to implementation, testing, maintenance and operation.
• Own your code and contribute to opinions on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate applications on cloud (AWS or Kubernetes), based on a microservices architecture.
• Take a role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions.
• Take part in service operational duties, including monitoring and keeping systems up and running.
• Be an amazing team player, and provide support and guidance to other engineers to help develop their technical capabilities.

ABOUT ZALANDO

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey, from being a pioneer in the world of e-commerce, to the starting point for fashion in Europe. We connect customers, brands, and partners across 23 markets. 

Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 46 million active customers through a team of diverse skill-sets, cultural backgrounds, and interests. 

Teams at our Dublin Tech Hub work on many of the cornerstones of our Fashion Store, including the partner program and personalization components. Through full stack engineering and research, we turn visionary ideas into new emerging businesses with real potential. By tackling the most challenging problems for the fashion industry, we drive the personal digital experience and underlying knowledge models to create the most inspirational fashion experience for our customers.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals combined with a strong capacity of solving complex problems. 
• More than 3 years of experience in backend engineering.
• Solid programming skills in Java.
• Experience with building microservices in Java using Spring Boot or similar.
• Knowledge in technologies like Kubernetes and Docker but not limited to them
• Knowledge in architecture/design methods and patterns, data and API specifications, quality assurance and testing methods
• Pragmatic and curious, find the right tool for the right job. We solve business problems in the best possible way, but completion is better than perfection
• Good communication skills in English

ZALANDO BENEFITS

Career Development

• We offer peer-to-peer performance reviews twice a year
• Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
• Join regular all-hands, team meetings, Q&A-sessions, and quarterly anonymous employee surveys to ask your questions and provide your feedback
• Support from an international team of experts; mentoring and professional development opportunities

Wellbeing 

• 2 days paid leave per year for volunteering
• Minimum of 27 holiday days per calendar year
• Online sports courses, wellbeing, and nutrition advice offered by Humanoo personal wellbeing coach app

Flexibility

• Flexible working hours
• Relocation assistance for internationals
• If you work from an office in your role, a choice of office equipment to be delivered to you, to support you working from home due to COVID-19 safety

Financial

• Access to the employee shares program
• 40% shopping discount on products shipped and sold by Zalando
• Discounts from a range of external partners

Family

• Employee parents’ forums and employee resource group
• Supported transition into and out of parental leave, with a buddy and re-onboarding plan
• 3 fully-paid child sick days per year

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.