A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals combined with a strong capacity of solving complex problems with over 8 years of hands-on software development in a commercial setting.
Experience with building microservices in one of our preferred technologies, like Scala with Akka or cats-effect, Go, NodeJS/Purescript, Haskell or Java.
Experience in software development, involving designing and developing large-scale, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services
Knowledge of cloud architectures as well as experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
Experience in technologies like Kubernetes and Docker but not limited to them
Experience managing services end-to-end, from developing to deploying to monitoring and incident support
Knowledge in architecture/design methods and patterns, data and API specifications, quality assurance and testing methods
Pragmatic and curious, find the right tool for the right job. We solve business problems in the best possible way while being a highly dynamic team that embraces change.
Great communication skills in English
Functional Programming experience is a bonus
At Zalando Merchant Operations we use a variety of languages, but most of our backend systems are written in Scala.
Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 100+ internal and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties and events
Competitive salary, employee share shop, training platform and training budget, free language courses (English / German), pension scheme, 40% Zalando shopping discount on most products from our catalogue, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, diverse sports and health offerings
Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and access to an international team of experts
Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available only in select locations)
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, and business need.
Create highly scalable solutions and own the entire development cycle — from architecture design to implementation, testing, and maintenance
Own your code and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on cloud (AWS or Kubernetes), based on a microservices architecture
Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions
Take a leading role in evolving and scaling our systems as per our business demands.
Own service operational duties, including monitoring and keeping them up and running and healthy
As Software Engineer within our Merchant Operations (Zalando’s Marketplace) department you will be building Zalando’s marketplace infrastructure, which includes merchant and article onboarding services, order processing, fulfillment integrations, and analytical services, with public-facing interfaces for both developers and merchants, scaling our current systems and building new ones from scratch. All that while dealing with high-volume transactional and sensitive data.