Responsibilities
- Develop scalable and resilient services for the ad marketplace, supporting up to 4,000 requests per second with a p99 latency target of 25 milliseconds.
- Own feature execution from requirement refinement through deployment and production operations.
- Write readable, testable, and maintainable code with automated tests and clear acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Analysts, and ML Ops to clarify requirements and business objectives.
- Provide operational support through metrics, alerting, graphs, and tracing, and assist with production root-cause analysis.
- Share knowledge and help improve team engineering practices.
Requirements
- Deep experience with Java, Spring Framework, and distributed systems.
- Ability to decompose complex requirements into small, safe deployment iterations while navigating technical constraints.
- Commitment to clean code, readability, comprehensive testing, and engineering excellence.
- Ability to collaborate with product teams, understand user needs, identify conflicting requirements, and connect systems to business KPIs.
- Knowledge of the listed technology stack or eagerness to learn it.
Benefits
- 27 days of annual holiday for full-time employees, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- Hybrid working with up to 60% remote work per week, according to team practice.
- Work from abroad for up to 30 working days per year.
- Employee shares program.
- Product discounts, including 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando and 30% off Lounge by Zalando.
- External partner discounts.
- Relocation assistance subject to prior agreement.
- Family services, counseling, health and wellbeing options, mental health support, and coaching.
- Training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review.
- Applications must be submitted through the online form; applications by email are not accepted.
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About Zalando
Welcome to Zalando. Here’s some key info about us: Our position and vision: - We’re Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. - Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to more than 50 million active customers in 25 markets; offering clothes, footwear, accessories, and beauty. - We're building the ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle ecommerce. Our offering: - Our assortment of international brands ranges from world-famous names to local labels - Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation, and interaction - As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners, and friends of our brand. - Our logistics network with 12 centrally located fulfillment centers allows us to efficiently serve our customers throughout Europe, supported by warehouses in Italy, France, Poland, and Sweden with a focus on local customer needs. Our beliefs: - Our ambition is to combine our passion for self-expression through fashion with our unwavering commitments to sustainability and D&I - We promote an inclusive corporate culture that welcomes different perspectives and brings together people from diverse backgrounds. We want to ensure a non-discriminatory and supportive working environment for each of our employees to thrive. It’s a journey that all teams are on together, centered around the values we uphold. - We believe that our integration of fashion, operations, and online technology gives us the capability to deliver a compelling value proposition to both our customers and fashion brand partners.