As Zalando transforms from Europe’s leading e-commerce company into The Starting Point for Fashion, this is an exciting time to join. The Market Insights team is looking for talented Senior Software Engineers who have a passion for building applications at the intersection of data engineering and web development and want to shape the next generation of backend services. Market Insights project involves to i) crawl and scrape eventually > 500 web shops that compete with Zalando across 25 countries daily, ii) find exact product matches between the Zalando assortment and these web shops, and iii) enable actionable intelligence based on the data. You will create a tremendous impact on our 42+ million active customers by offering attractive offers in comparison to offers customers find at other shops, and over > 550 Zalando employees by providing insight dashboards that highlight what’s happening in various European fashion shops. You will challenge our status quo, drive innovation and apply agile practices.

ABOUT ZALANDO

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 20 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 42 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use. 

Pricing Platform is at the core of our commercial operation. Our tools help to determine how much of each product to buy, to recommend the best prices for these products, and to ensure that we have the right level of logistics capacity to fulfill our customers’ demand. The Pricing Platform engineering team uses cutting-edge technology, data science, and machine learning, to forecast demand and pricing with a focus on business and customer experience. Partnerships happen with all key engineering and product teams, business and customer experience teams.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

• Design and develop backend services that implement the business decisions and strategy using the latest tech stack (Kubernetes, Nakadi/Kafka) in day-to-day work.
• Apply your Python development skills to build production systems, RESTful APIs, microservices (AWS), and the infrastructure for big data processing
• Design reliable systems that implement SRE best practices
• Maintain and support business-critical systems
• Ship code to production every day using CI/CD techniques
• Tackle the challenges that come with processing highly sensitive data
• Value security over box-ticking
• Make your mark on ambitious projects
• Design, develop, deploy, operate and improve software solutions, that your peers praise for its elegance and code readability

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 5+ years of professional software development experience 
• Expert level programming experience in Python
• Strong experience in designing and architecting distributed services 
• Solid relational database skills (Postgres, MySQL etc).
• Ability to contribute towards best-practices and architectural leadership to our backend applications and help pick the architecture, frameworks and tooling for our next generation platform.
• Experience leading and owning projects from beginning to end
• Experience with agile methodologies and automated testing
• Familiarity with containerization, microservice architecture, continuous integration and delivery.
• Clear communication skills when it comes to reporting needs and answering technical and service questions.

PERKS AT WORK

• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, 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 onboarding, mentoring, and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
• Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service, and parent & child rooms (available only in select locations)