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The ZEOS B2B Portal is the face of our platform, serving as the central gateway for partners to manage their business within the Zalando ecosystem. As the Engineering Manager for the Portal and Portal Application team, you will lead the engineers responsible for building a seamless, high-performance, and intuitive user interface that unifies complex B2B services. You will manage a cross-functional team of up to 10 engineers, fostering an environment where frontend excellence meets robust backend integration. Your mission is to ensure that the ZEOS Portal remains a best-in-class 'Single Point of Entry' for our partners. You will collaborate closely with UX designers, Product Managers, and Principal Engineers to deliver a cohesive experience, ensuring that modularity (Micro Frontends), security, and performance are at the heart of every deployment.
Job Responsibility
Lead Full-Stack Strategy: Help shape a scalable and modular portal architecture across both frontend and backend layers. You'll ensure a seamless and intuitive experience for our partners, creating harmony across various applications, services, and internal tools
Empower and Grow Talent: Hire and develop a diverse team of 10 engineers (5 frontend, 5 backend). You will focus on their professional growth, helping them master the balance between rapid feature delivery and high-quality engineering standards across the stack
Bridge Design and Engineering: Work in close partnership with Product and UX Design leads to translation of user needs into technical roadmaps, leveraging modern web trends and Design Systems (DS) to increase development velocity
Own the Portal Infrastructure: Take responsibility for the portal's backend infrastructure and services - overseeing deployments, scalability, uptime, and data flows that power the partner experience, in addition to frontend performance and CI/CD
Champion Operational Health: Take full ownership of the portal's stability, frontend and backend. You will oversee CI/CD pipelines, monitor performance metrics across the stack, and ensure robust security (Okta/OpenID) and SEO-friendly architectures
Navigate Architectural Choices: Provide the technical perspective needed to guide decisions around Micro Frontends (MFE), backend service design, SPA performance, and API architecture, ensuring the team builds extensible solutions without over-engineering
Foster Smooth Delivery: Act as a catalyst for Agile best practices, removing blockers for your team and ensuring that cross-functional stakeholders are aligned on the portal's roadmap and release cycles
Requirements
Proven People Leader: You bring 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a track record of building healthy, high-trust cultures and coaching senior talent in an international environment
Full-Stack Portal Expert: You have a solid technical background in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Node.js) and backend systems (Java/Kotlin services, databases, messaging), with a deep understanding of Micro Frontend architectures, service design, and state management
Platform & Infrastructure Owner: You are well-versed in designing and operating backend services and REST APIs, not just consuming them, and have hands-on experience with cloud-native deployments and infrastructure management (AWS/Kubernetes)
Cross-Functional Technical Leader: You've managed mixed frontend/backend teams before and are comfortable making technical trade-offs across the full stack, from UI rendering to backend service architecture
Quality & Operations Focused: You have a strong 'DevOps' mentality - you care about build times, automated testing, infrastructure reliability, and seamless deployments, ensuring a zero-downtime experience for our partners
User-Centric Perspective: You understand that technical excellence is a means to an end. You are passionate about delivering value to the customer and can translate business requirements into clean, scalable software products
Empowering Guide: You excel at giving your team the space to lead while offering the right level of support. You know how to balance looking at the 'big picture' strategy with staying connected to the technical heart of the work
What we offer
27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)
2 paid volunteering days a year
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
Employee shares program
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services, including counseling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available
Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review