Engineering Manager - Content Team

• Lead, coach, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning through active coaching and feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to shape and deliver the technical roadmap. Define mid-to-long-term technical goals, ensure seamless collaboration with teams across ZMS and Zalando, and translate business requirements into scalable, high-quality technical solutions
• Demonstrate strong product ownership and product insight: Deeply understand the product, market, and business context to inform technical strategy, constructively challenge priorities when needed, and ensure engineering efforts are aligned with maximum business impact
• Oversee the technical direction and drive technical excellence in our core systems. While your primary focus is leadership, you remain technically sharp - ready to participate in architecture reviews or dive into the code to help the team unblock complex challenges
• Define and enforce engineering standards. From CI/CD pipelines to robust testing strategies (TDD/E2E), you ensure that quality is a core feature of every release. Be accountable for the delivery of secure, high-performance services, managing infrastructure costs and making informed trade-offs between scalability, reliability, and maintainability of codebases
• Actively shape the team structure, identify talent gaps, and drive the hiring process to attract top-tier engineers who share our values and have the right skills to meet our evolving business needs
• Establish and maintain effective team rituals and practices, identify and drive process improvements, and create a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing and mentorship to grow the skills and careers of team members

• Proven track record of leading an engineering team in a fast-paced environment where you have created a culture of trust, growth, and responsibility
• Solid background in Full Stack Software Engineering, specifically with frontend technologies, including React, and various backend technologies, including Node.js and the JVM ecosystem (Kotlin/Java). Experience in the development of mobile apps (iOS, Android) is a plus
• Well-versed in modern architecture patterns (Microservices, Event-Driven, REST/OpenAPI) and have experience with AWS services and containerization
• You understand how to build resilient systems that are customer facing, scalable and maintainable
• Leader who can still talk shop with Senior Engineers and Principals, conduct meaningful architecture reviews, and contribute to complex architectural decisions
• Can translate technical debt and infrastructure needs into clear business value for stakeholders, particularly regarding user-facing interfaces
• Understand the importance of regulations like the European Accessibility Act and have experience introducing compliance to them
• Fluent English communicator who can navigate technical complexity and business requirements with equal ease

Experience in the development of mobile apps (iOS, Android)

• Employee shares program
• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Hybrid working model, with flexible hours and up to 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
• 27 days of vacation a year to start
• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
• Family services, including counselling and support
• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
• Mental health support and coaching available