ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a senior frontend engineer in our Navigation and Search & Browse Tooling team, you’ll be part of a motivated team of  frontend engineers and will be working closely with Product Managers and Design specialists. You will play a crucial role in building the future search and browse experience for Zalando's 50 million customers across 28 countries as well as building the internal tools for fine tuning the search and browse experience.

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• You will be part of a frontend engineering team that builds customer facing experiences as well as internal tools.

• Communicate with various stakeholders to understand the business context, and translate the requirements into technical designs.

• Act like an owner by taking up a challenge, work towards reducing ambiguity, and break the work down into manageable tasks for the team.

• Establish trust and technical excellence beyond the team and collaborate with other internal product and technology teams to build scalable systems which integrate into the larger context of Zalando

• Continuously improve the performance of our systems, and your skill set as a software engineer and share knowledge with your colleagues.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF 

• You consistently demonstrate an entrepreneurial, analytical, and customer-centric approach, and you have an insatiable desire to improve the experience for our customers.

• You have experience in all parts of the software development life cycle: building, testing, deploying, and operating in production.
   

• You are proficient in developing large-scale applications in Typescript & Javascript and have experience with React.

• You are not only experienced with integrating APIs but have a deep understanding of REST architecture.

• You have hands-on experience in improving front-end performance and observability and worked with front-end monitoring/logging tools like Sentry. You have an affinity for the reliability, monitoring, scalability, and performance of the app.

• You communicate effectively in English and are comfortable collaborating with different product, design, and engineering teams.

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!