23 hours ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical design and end-to-end implementation and delivery of mid-to-large-scale departmental projects.
- Partner with Product and Engineering Management to translate objectives into scalable software solutions.
- Make significant code contributions, build prototypes, troubleshoot complex systems, and maintain codebase mastery.
- Lead integration of autonomous agents and AI-assisted workflows into engineering delivery practices.
- Mentor and coach engineers through paired delivery and critical-path work.
- Improve systems and processes to strengthen production readiness, reliability, and architectural scalability.
- Shape cross-departmental technical strategy, standards, and engineering culture.
Requirements
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of mission-critical engineering initiatives and customer-facing products at scale.
- Experience with agentic systems, AI-driven software development lifecycles, or autonomous agent integration in engineering organizations.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder influence, and change-management skills.
- Experience shaping company-wide strategy and guiding teams through organizational change.
- Concrete examples of using AI tools or new engineering methods to improve delivery, quality, or engineering excellence.
- Proven experience developing solutions for regulated financial institutions or the payments/fintech space.
- Experience reporting to a Head of Engineering or higher and initiating impactful technical improvements across a department.
Benefits
- 27 days of annual holiday for full-time employees, increasing by one day per calendar year up to 30 days.
- 40% discount on fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, and external partner discounts.
- Family support, including counseling and dedicated services for parents and carers.
- Company pension scheme and employee shares programme.
- Health and wellbeing options, including Wellhub, plus mental health support and coaching.
- Training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review for professional development.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- Relocation assistance subject to prior agreement.
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About Zalando
Zalando operates a European online fashion and lifestyle platform where consumers shop apparel, footwear, accessories, and beauty, and brands sell via its marketplace. The public company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Berlin, runs its own logistics network and serves over 50 million active customers across 25 markets. Its business spans direct e-commerce, partner services, and payments and risk systems that support the platform’s operations.