THE ROLE & THE TEAM As a Senior Software Engineer, you implement customer facing solutions that engage and entertain Zalando 50 million customers. As more customers look for inspiration, you will be developing exciting destinations and reactivating our customers based on what they follow. Our team is responsible for fulfilling our customers' needs for inspiration by creating appealing author destinations and triggering follow-on communications based on customer’s explicit and implicit interests. This requires operating microservices that stretch from purely backend solutions all the way to rendering frontend components. INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands, and partners across 17 markets. Learn more about our vision for inclusivity and innovation here. At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit. We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process. do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING) Create scalable solutions that serve Zalando customers while owning the entire development cycle - from architecture design to implementation, testing and maintenance. Be part of a team owning the code and deciding on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications, based on a microservices architecture. Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions by writing technical documents and breaking down feature requests into manageable stories and tasks. Play a leading role in evolving and scaling our systems as per our business demands. Take part in the services’ operational duties, monitoring, and keeping them up running and healthy. Write code that is modular, readable, easily testable, and maintainable. Implement and fully test new features before deploying them to production. Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and mentor others towards a culture of high quality code. Support and shape Zalando’s engineering community by sharing best practices, supporting peers, and interviewing additional engineering talents. WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF You are a polyglot programmer with over 5 years of hands-on experience with Java (preferably SpringBoot), RESTful APIs (GraphQL is a plus), SQL databases (preferably Postgres), and cloud architecture (AWS & Kubernetes is a plus). You have over 7 years of professional experience writing testable, maintainable, and performant code, with a proven track record of deploying and running it to production environments. You have experience with React and NodeJS. TypeScript is a plus. You bring proficiency in state-of-the-art software engineering methodologies and are familiar with continuous delivery, automated testing, and code quality tools. You understand and design for non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as scalability, reliability, security, and performance optimization, ensuring that your code meets high standards in these areas. You have experience in operational excellence, including but not limited to monitoring, reporting, tracing, and alerting in complex, distributed components and services. You are a product-oriented engineer who goes beyond ticket implementation to actively shape product development collaborating with engineering teams, managers, and non-technical stakeholders. We value team members who proactively identify and solve challenges, whether it's improving internal tooling or leading larger architectural improvements to our systems. Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and improve system performance and reliability. Good understanding of message brokers and event driven design. Experience with Python is a plus. Experience with Apache Spark or Databricks is a plus. Great verbal and written communication skills in English. OUR OFFER Employee shares program 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners 2 paid volunteering days a year Hybrid working model with 60% (or more) remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year 27 days of vacation a year to start Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement) Family services, including counseling and support Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass) Mental health support and coaching available