Senior Backend Engineer

2 days ago

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland Zalando GmbH Full time

Zalando eCommerce Platform (ZCP) is a growing multi-disciplinary group of 500+ data scientists, engineers, business developers, and product managers across Helsinki, Zurich, Dublin and Berlin working to inspire each individual customer with meaningful fashion moments beyond transactions in a very personalized way. The team directly impacts on what our 50+ million active customers see during their visit at our Fashion Store (e.g.: www.zalando.fi). The team aim is to provide the most relevant, engaging user experience for each customer. We do this by combining Machine Learning driven personalization and business driven systems driving content selection decisions.

To further strengthen our efforts to improve our platform offering, we are looking for an experienced Software Engineer striving on the ideas of finely crafted software, operational excellence and building a world class platform.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in this team you will be working on high quality key services. You will drive discovery, design and development for our new initiatives and collaborate with our stakeholders and downstreams.

WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
  1. Full development cycle: Discovery, design, develop, deploy, operate, monitor and improve important software solutions that impact millions of customers.
  2. Get onboard our tech stack of Scala, DynamoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes.
  3. Specifying, planning, developing, maintaining and operating microservices using REST APIs and cloud-native technologies.
  4. Participate in planning, writing design documents, code reviews and our lean rituals.
  5. Collaborate with many Applied Scientists and Data Engineers across different locations.
  6. Work together with product management to clarify contribution to company initiatives.
  7. Together with your peers, represent the team when reacting to incoming requests, mail and chat communications.
  8. Consistently ship working, testable, maintainable, readable code/data to production in small and safe iterations. The solutions are performant, scalable and fulfill the set SLOs of the product.
  9. Making a positive impact on our engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and driving technical discussions within the team and beyond.
  10. Keep learning and share your knowledge of state-of-the-art technologies that will help us innovate faster.
YOUR PROFILE
  1. You have solid knowledge of JVM based language(s) (Scala, Java, Kotlin), willingness and interest in learning Scala 3 (including libraries like Cats Effect & ZIO) and knowledge of software patterns and paradigms like continuous integration, test automation and deployment pipelines.
  2. You have experience in specifying, planning, developing, maintaining and operating large scale microservices using REST API (OpenAPI), GraphQL, Cloud Platforms (AWS, Kubernetes), PostgreSQL.
  3. High level knowledge or interest in data engineering and familiarity with DAGs, data pipelines, S3, Superset, Databricks, or Airflow is a plus.
  4. Good skills in SQL and Python is a plus.
  5. You have good communication and collaboration skills and enjoy working in an international and diverse environment with a positive no-job-is-beneath you attitude as a team player.
  6. You are self-motivated and have a proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
  7. You have problem-solving skills and ability to apply logical and analytical thinking to complex problems.
OUR OFFER
  1. Centrally located and accessible office in Kamppi, Helsinki city center, with diverse working and entertainment spaces and healthy snacks and drinks available.
  2. Hybrid work model of up to 60% remote work and flexible working times.
  3. 40% Zalando shopping discount for employees, employee share shop, bike benefit, and Edenred benefits for lunch, sports and culture, commuting and massage.
  4. Extensive occupational health care and child care benefits.
  5. Additional holidays and volunteering time off.
  6. Supportive and active international community of colleagues for onboarding, mentoring, continued learning and for having fun through diverse offering of meetups and events, knowledge guilds and Employee Resource Groups with open source commitment.
  7. Relocation assistance for internationals.

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce - one that is inclusive by design. We only assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, racial identities, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and disability statuses. We only want to know why you're great for this role, so please avoid including your picture, age, and marital status in your CV as well.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.

Please note that all applications from this job page must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail. Once reviewed, our recruiters will contact applicants via an official Zalando email address (@zalando.de).

In some cases we also work with a selection of headhunters and agencies to fill specific roles. Please note that neither Zalando nor our recruiting partners will ask for any kind of payment to apply for a job or attend an interview.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process, please take a look at our FAQ page.

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