THE ROLE & THE TEAM
As Engineering Manager for the Ad Marketplace team, you will lead the design, implementation and operation of our online advertising auctions bidding and allocation solutions. We enable our advertising business and our partners to do effective digital marketing inside the Zalando platform.
We are in an exciting moment as we have multiple interesting projects. We are driving our family of different ad systems and ad formats to a common foundation. We are improving ad allocation on different premises to enable better performance for our partners and better relevance for our shoppers.
This is an opportunity to help shape and define the future of our bidding solutions and help to connect the right ads to the right shoppers at the right time. If you are interested in working with complex high availability low latency ad systems with critical business impact, in a great team of professionals and experts of the field in a company that keeps growing, this role is for you.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Grow and lead an engineering team that can create and operate complex and distributed low latency ad systems with narrow error budgets
Spot opportunities for collaboration within Zalando to create synergy across different services and offerings
Help to shape our Ad Marketplace, contributing to our vision, ways of working, processes, etc.
Simplify ways of working, align with other teams priorities and deliveries making us more productive while keeping engineers engagement high
Shape the cross-functional collaboration with our product, applied science, analytics and other disciplines required for the business
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
You have a strong manager track record in recruiting, growing, and leading engineering teams, with at least 3 years of previous team management
You can confidently drive cross-team & cross-functional projects and oversee major development stage gates from discovery to delivery
You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong tech expertise in JVM and Cloud tech
You are experienced in high-level architecture & designs with Microservices, APIs, Data modelling and common patterns of distributed systems communication
If you have domain knowledge in the advertising, digital marketing, media or e-commerce industry, it's a strong plus
You are experienced in modern application infrastructure/middleware/libraries like AWS, K8s is a strong plus.
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
Employee shares program
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
Two paid volunteering days a year
In a hybrid working model with 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
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 are available
Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review
Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us
Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.
