Senior Search Engineer

Location
Berlin
Contract
Full time
Job Category
Software Engineering - Backend

Senior Search Engineer - Search and Browse Platform (All Genders)


ABOUT THE TEAM


Contract: Full time
Job category: Software Engineering
Department: Search and Browse Platform
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Team Size: <8
Recruiter Name: Casimir Udegbunam

As a Backend Engineer in the Search and Browse Platform, you will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will take the Search systems to the next level, currently, we have around 15M searchable articles in our Elasticsearch (around ~600 nodes with ~150 indexes) and everything including Elasticsearch is hosted on Kubernetes


WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

  • Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to developing the Catalog and Search systems 
  • Design, build and maintain large-scale backend microservices using technologies such as Scala, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Nakadi, and Kubernetes
  • Ensure a state-of-the-art software development methodology
  • Share your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills
  • Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and with a large spectrum of competencies

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Experience with building Search Engines systems, using Elasticsearch, Solr or Lucene
  • Ability to design large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS)
  • Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala), experience with Scala is a plus
  • Experience with REST APIs design and event-driven architectures
  • Experience with scaling a large-scale Database system (SQL or no-SQL)
  • Advocating for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development

PERKS AT WORK

  • Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 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, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
  • Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts 
  • Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)

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.

Zalando SE


Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 25 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 50+ million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

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

Recruiter

Casimir Udegbunam

casimir.udegbunam@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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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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