2 days ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical designs and end-to-end implementation and delivery for mid-to-large-scale departmental initiatives.
- Act as the primary technical partner for Product and Engineering Management in delivering hands-on software solutions.
- Contribute significant code, prototypes, and deep-dive troubleshooting for complex engineering problems.
- Lead the integration of autonomous agents and AI-assisted workflows into engineering teams’ delivery cycles.
- Mentor and onboard engineers through coaching, paired delivery, and work on critical paths.
- Improve systems and processes to strengthen production readiness, reliability, and architectural scalability.
- Drive cross-departmental and organizational initiatives with Principal Engineers and leadership.
Requirements
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of mission-critical engineering initiatives and the ability to quickly understand complex domains.
- Experience building customer-facing products at scale and guiding delivery through hands-on engineering.
- Experience with agentic systems, AI-driven software development lifecycles, or autonomous agent integration.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, mentoring, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Experience shaping company-wide strategy and leading teams through organizational change.
- Concrete experience using new AI tools and methods to improve delivery, quality, or engineering excellence.
- Proven experience developing solutions for regulated financial institutions or the payments/fintech sector.
- Experience reporting to a Head of Engineering or higher and initiating impactful technical improvements across a department.
Benefits
- 27 days of annual holiday initially 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 services for parents and carers.
- Company pension scheme and employee shares program.
- Health and wellbeing options including Wellhub, plus mental health support and coaching.
- Training platform access and biannual peer-to-peer reviews.
- 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.