Software Engineer - Transactions Web Experience

Location
Berlin
Contract
Full time
Job Category
Software Engineering - Backend

As a fullstack engineer in our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the Transactions Web experience domain, delivering customer and business value across cart checkout, orders, and returns premises. Our domain presents significant challenges due to the breadth of delivery options, address options, carrier options, payment types (buy now, pay later, installments, etc.), loyalty options, multiple checkout experiences, and return options. We have a wealth of ideas to improve and change-the-game in the domain, along with numerous challenges to overcome. If you thrive on engineering challenges, you'll find this role fulfilling. You'll learn industry best practices at scale and have ample opportunities for professional growth in ownership, delivery, collaboration and technical learning.

What you build and put into production will impact our 50+ million customers instantly – including yourself – generating more than 10 billion Euros in sales across 23 markets in Europe. We process 2.5 million shopping items daily, leading to hundreds of thousands of orders every single day. Join our international and diverse team handling one of the most crucial parts of Zalando.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

  • Take ownership of designing, developing, deploying, and operating end-to-end customer-facing solutions.
  • Integrate our frontend and backend (backend-for-frontend) services, while monitoring, testing, and continuously optimizing.
  • Develop systems for new concepts and improve our architecture in a complex domain.
  • Work in a cross-functional team with developers, designers, product managers, and product analysts, while collaborating with & contributing to several platform teams.
  • Proactively mentor, share knowledge, and learn from your peers.


WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Significant experience with JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, or respective frameworks (e.g., Angular/Angular2, Ember, or Vue). Experience with ES6/7, TypeScript, or Redux is a plus. Familiarity with Functional Programming and OOP is ideal.
  • Backend development experience is highly preferred, with a preferrable focus on NodeJS.
  • Awareness of user experience and the ability to build user-friendly web applications, potentially with a design system.
  • Proficiency in writing well-tested and reusable code.
  • Operational expertise and knowledge of SRE practices are a plus.
  • You are looking for a mid-level engineering position with opportunities and challenges to grow your skillset and yourself.

PERKS AT WORK

  • We value our culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
  • Competitive salary, employee share shop, flexible working times, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
  • Extensive on-boarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
  • Relocation assistance for international candidates

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.

Recruiter

Ahmed Sadek

ahmed.sadek@zalando.de

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

Our Software Engineering teams deploy software extensively, managing a broad set of applications and conducting thousands of deployments per week. The Software Engineering team enables Zalando as Europe’s number one multi-brand, digital platform for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle for our partners and customers. As a Zalando Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a community of thousands of colleagues across Europe.

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Software Engineering

Zalando SE Berlin headquarter BHQ-X

About Zalando

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey to build the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce. Help us offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 50 million active customers in 25 markets. Or be part of our logistic infrastructure, software or service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. Join our Zalando ecosystem, to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry. 

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