Senior Software Engineer

• Take ownership of the design and implementation of our software framework to cater for the increasing scale and load
• Deliver end-to-end solutions and set the standard for the entire development cycle, including requirements engineering based on deep domain & business understanding, prototyping, implementing production software, as well as testing and operating the highly available production system
• Navigate technical coordination across multiple teams and stakeholders, balancing our team’s needs with upstream/downstream constraints
• Be a key driver of operational excellence: own incident response, build team playbooks, and ensure production stability for a business-critical system
• Collaborate closely with our applied scientists to mutually influence and understand system constraints and opportunities, and take part in shaping the future of our system
• Think abstractly and discover correlations between problems, methodologies, and solutions
• Promote and support an inclusive culture and diverse team environment

• ~5 years of relevant industry experience as a senior engineer developing for JVM-based platforms
• Strong understanding of mathematical and computational concepts
• Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and patterns, Spring Boot, REST, Kubernetes, Event Streaming Platforms, architecture documentation, data and API specifications (e.g. OpenAPI), quality assurance and testing methods
• Prior experience in operations and incident response
• Excited about working in a setup that requires a deep domain understanding (e.g., how our logistics order processing works), basic mechanisms of our optimization algorithms, as well as operations research methods
• Team player who thrives in an agile and cross-functional environment
• Fluent in English

Proficiency with Kotlin, and Python are considered a plus

• 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 60% (or more) remote per week
• 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 counseling and support
• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
• Mental health support and coaching available