THE ROLE & THE TEAM
Product ratings and reviews provide Zalando’s customers access to authentic, detailed, and diverse feedback on products and empower them to make confident purchase decisions. Zalando is making significant investments into its ratings and review experiences and to achieve this are forming a new dedicated team with a mission to elevate the experience to best in class for our customers, while also achieving significant business impact for the business.
As part of this new team, Zalando is seeking a talented Software/Data Engineer to work with us to develop the technical backend and frontend capabilities required to enable over 50 million customers to gain insights from over 100 million ratings and reviews. While this position will involve a mix of disciplines on backend components, such as backend APIs, databases, and data pipelines as our needs to process the reviews and gleam insights for customer experiences evolve.
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated candidate with experience with strong development experience in either backend or data engineering, and a strong interest in developing their capabilities across the two disciplines. This will primarily involve working with systems including backend APIs, databases, data pipelines; with a technology stack of Python, Kotlin, Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL and GraphQL.
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
As an Engineer you will play a role in the development, deployment and production monitoring across team’s backend and data systems.
You will build and maintain software architecture across our data products that evolve over time.
Be part of an agile cross functional team that delivers high-performance software across backend and data engineering systems, contributing and guiding technical decisions as required
You will continuously ship high quality testable and reliable systems.
You will be agile, iteratively test features with stakeholders while keeping the big picture in mind.
You will have a focus on team processes, automation, communication and collaboration to support the velocity and output of the team.
WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
You are a smart and enthusiastic engineer with strong technical experience and skills, who cares about solving tangible customer problems.
You have proven experience (at least 4 years plus) with JVM-based languages like Java or Kotlin and/or Spark and Databrick. You know how to work with relational databases.
You are familiar with the entire software development life cycle which includes design patterns, API specifications, quality assurance and testing methods.
You have experience of production level data engineering systems, and working on projects using technologies such as Databricks, Airflow, Spark and Python is a distinct advantage
You can thrive in a collaborative environment involving many different stakeholders, including Data Science teams.
Our values resonate with you.
You love engineering: designing, making and breaking things!
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
40% off products sold and shipped by Zalando
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
27 days of vacation per year to start
A one-time allowance to set up an ergonomic workstation (outside of Zalando office)
Health & Dental Insurance (opt-in)
Pension scheme & match up to 10% (opt-in)
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Cycle to Work Scheme
Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
Employee shares program
Family services, including counseling and support
Health and wellbeing options, including Gympass/Wellhub
Mental health support and coaching available
Professional development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer reviews
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups
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