As Zalando transforms from Europe’s leading e-commerce company into The Starting Point for Fashion, this is an exciting time to join. As an Engineering Manager of the Market Insights project, you are part of a high performing team, building data-driven tech products that connect every part of the fashion industry.

You will join the team responsible for Zalando's Market Insights project and ramp up a new team for crawling and scraping competitor data. The Market Insights project involves: i) crawl and scrape over 500 online stores that compete with Zalando across 25 countries daily, ii) find exact product matches between the Zalando assortment and these stores, and iii) enable actionable intelligence based on the data.

You and your team will utilize innovative technology at scale to i) discover new articles that become available on competitor websites, ii) build a scalable system to scrape important information from these discovered pages on a daily basis, and iii) transform this data and share it with other teams in the company.

You will create a tremendous impact on our 42+ million active customers by offering attractive offers in comparison to offers offered by competitor stores. The Market Insights project will impact over 550 Zalando employees by providing insight dashboards that highlight what’s happening in various European fashion shops. 

We are looking for a leader with passion for building scalable architectures, with experience in guiding, delivering and operating software systems at scale. You will support the team working in a structured and transparent way and achieve results that we can all proudly celebrate. This position is a unique opportunity to have a visible impact, and connect with exceptional talents from many different backgrounds.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

• Build, lead, manage, inspire and grow a product-driven team of 7-9 engineers while ensuring smooth delivery and continuous improvement
• Manage stakeholders and dependencies, work closely with the product counterparts on solution planning, design and implementation (internal and external)
• Take architectural decisions, contribute to the priorities, spearhead the documentation and learnings from incidents
• Ensure system-reliability engineering and technical compliance
• Cross functional collaboration: Mentor for close collaboration between data scientists and data engineers across the team. Join forces efficiently with product managers and engineers in the Product Matching team and other engineers in the department

ABOUT ZALANDO

As Zalando transforms from Europe’s leading e-commerce company into The Starting Point for Fashion, this is an exciting time to join us. We are Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 23 markets. We promise to give customers a flawless choice, the latest trends and styles, unmatched convenience. In a quarter, tens of millions of active customers visit us nearly a billion times, make millions of orders from a catalog of hundreds of thousands of products by over 3000 brands.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• A strong and self-driven Leader who has a very good understanding of technical landscapes and has been leading a team of at least 5 engineers for at least 2 years
• At least 5-7 years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer.
• You are comfortable working in a greenfield product team, helping distill customer problems into meaningful actions - be that contributing to other teams’ codebase or features, or working through uncertainty into delivering customer impact.
• You are comfortable in coordinating and collaborating with other tech teams across multiple locations.
• Hands-on experience with API design and Event-Driven Architecture. Experience with multiple programming languages is preferred.
• Hands on experience with distributed systems, relational databases, and microservice architecture in public cloud(AWS, Google Cloud or Azure)
• Very good communication skills with experience working in diverse internal customer environment, building customer facing applications and experiences
• Experience in mentoring and preparing professional development plans of engineers in the team

PERKS AT WORK

• We value our culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meet-ups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events.
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings.
• Extensive on-boarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts.
• Relocation assistance for internationals.

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.