As a Frontend Engineer within our Zalando Direct (Zalando’s Marketplace) department, you will be joining our Sales Performance team which helps our Partners to understand and improve their performance on the Zalando Platform. You will be building applications to give partners visualisations and in-depth breakdowns of how their business is performing in terms of sales and growth across the different markets of Zalando. This will help partners to make strategic decisions in order to grow their businesses. 

You will join a community of Frontend Engineers in the Zalando Direct department who collaborate and support each other in building applications. 

We at Zalando Direct build a platform that enables our 300+ brands and retailers to sell directly to 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

• Own the whole development cycle - from architecture design to implementation and testing and maintenance of our products
• Collaborating closely with UX, Product and Core Infrastructure Teams and other colleagues in an agile environment
• Join a team where Continuous Integration, Code Quality, Code Reviews, Test Coverage, are kept at very high standards, therefore you should also be positive and firm in your attitude towards them
• You will be delivering fully functional features and products that are well tested and based on user requirements.
• Encompassing an inclusive culture and team environments

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

• Ability to write well formatted, structured, documented and clean code that interacts with backend technologies.
• Experienced in ECMAScript, HTML5, CSS and JS build tools like Webpack. Typescript experience is a good plus
• Effective communication skills in English and ability to understand business requirements
• A desire to constantly learn and improve your own skills
• 3+ years of experience in dedicated frontend projects with modern frameworks such as React, AngularJS or VueJS
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes, Node.js “backend for frontend”, AWS, OAuth 2.0 is a plus
• Enthusiasm for direct and frequent interaction with the users, and interest in discovering opportunities collaborating closely with UX, Product and other colleagues
• Comfortable in promoting inclusive culture practices and processes that are models for others

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
• Mental wellbeing support by our Employee Assistance Program and professional consultants to help you find health resources

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 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.