3 days ago
Berlin, GermanyMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and improve the Content Studio toolkit for fashion brands to plan, execute, and monitor advertising campaigns.
- Develop and maintain backend applications, APIs, event-driven services, and advertising content formats, with some frontend contributions.
- Own feature delivery from requirement refinement and task decomposition through deployment and production operations.
- Write readable, testable, and maintainable code, including automated tests and clear acceptance criteria.
- Provide operational support through metrics, alerting, graphs, tracing, performance monitoring, and production incident root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineering peers while sharing knowledge with teammates.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience with a Java-based language such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Experience developing backend applications, designing and developing APIs, and building event-driven services.
- Solid knowledge of operational excellence and cloud-oriented infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly; JavaScript knowledge is a plus but not required.
- Ability to understand user needs and business KPIs, identify conflicting requirements, decompose complexity, and deliver safe incremental deployments.
Benefits
- Employee shares program.
- 40% discount on fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% discount on Zalando Lounge, and external partner discounts.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- Hybrid working with flexible hours and up to 60% remote work per week, subject to team practice.
- Work from abroad for up to 30 working days per year.
- 27 days of vacation per year to start.
- Relocation assistance subject to prior agreement.
- Family services, health and wellbeing options including Gympass, and mental health support and coaching.
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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.