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As a Software Engineer in the Ad Platform team, you'll be at the heart of our advertising technology ecosystem, building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our ad marketplace. You'll work on high-performance systems that handle thousands of requests per second, process massive volumes of user interaction events in near real-time, and manage hundreds of terabytes of data. Your expertise will be instrumental in developing advanced experimentation capabilities in our two-sided marketplace, directly impacting the success of our partners' campaigns and ZMS's financial performance.
Job Responsibility
Develop High-Performance Systems: Implement scalable, resilient services that power our ad marketplace platform, handling up to 4k RPS with strict latency requirements (p99 of 25ms)
Deliver Features: Decompose epics into manageable tasks, owning the execution from requirement refinement through to deployment and production operations
Maintain Engineering Excellence: Elevate our codebase through readable, testable, and maintainable code, writing automated tests and defining clear acceptance criteria
Collaborate and Share Knowledge: Actively participate in team discussions, help skill-up your peers, and partner with Product Managers, Analysts, and ML Ops to fill requirement gaps
Operate What You Build: Deliver the supporting operational elements (metrics, alerting, graphs, tracing) to monitor performance and assist in root-cause analysis during production incidents
Requirements
Deep experience with Java, Spring, and distributed systems
You're Inspired by Quality
You're a Collaborative Builder
You're Tech-Savvy
You Deconstruct Complexity
You're Product-Aware
Knowledge of our tech stack (or eagerness to learn)
Clean code, readability, comprehensive testing
What we offer
27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (and +1/year until 30)
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with 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
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