THE ROLE & THE TEAM
Lounge by Zalando is the fastest growing part of Zalando, now turning over billions of euros each year. That said, there is so much untapped potential with respect to personalization and recommendation.
You will be the senior data engineer, working alongside Backend Engineers and Data Scientists to build a large scale recommender system. We are the largest online fashion retailer in Europe, as such we need an exceptional engineer who can design, build and maintain Machine Learning pipelines at a global scale. You will own everything from batch / stream preprocessing, model training, and model / feature distribution to the real time recommender system.
This is a very good opportunity to build a data product that has a measurable impact on the business and the user experience. This is proper greenfield development, on a scale that few engineers ever get the opportunity to experience. You will have full autonomy to direct architectural decisions, and help to implement state of the art ML recommender algorithms. There are very few roles which offer this unique synthesis of scale and ML complexity.
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.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Provide critical data infrastructures like large-scale ETL processes, DWHs, stream processing and batch processing pipelines, large-scale high-throughput/low-latency data stores, data governance mechanisms.
Improve the pace of innovation by building and improving ML infrastructures such as training/evaluation frameworks, experimentation frameworks.
Collaborate with brilliant Product Managers, Data Scientists, Engineers and Analysts across Zalando to create positive customer impact together.
Help define our team's objective. Continuously improve the self-organization of the team.
WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
You are a Software Engineer specialized in data management. You have experience in leveraging software engineering principles to design systems and writing high quality code – not just SQL.
You have 5+ years of experience in large-scale data engineering projects.
You bring solid experience with large-scale batch processing and/or stream processing (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Storm, Apache Beam, Kafka.)
You have a good understanding of distributed data processing mechanisms. You should be able to diagnose and optimize a slow running data pipeline.
You are Proficient in either Python or Java.
You bring knowledge of distributed databases, especially high-throughput/low-latency data stores like DynamoDB, Cassandra, Aerospike, Redis etc. 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 Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with up to 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 for full-time employees
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services, including counseling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available
Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review
ABOUT LOUNGE BY ZALANDO
Lounge by Zalando is an online outlet for fashion and lifestyle products in 20+ European countries. We offer our members daily, time-limited sale campaigns with discounts of up to 75% off the recommended retail price. However, Lounge by Zalando is so much more than discounts. Our strength lies in our focus on fashion and lifestyle brands: from sought-after labels to niche brands, from famous international names to trendy luxury brands, we make sure to meet the fashion taste of all our customers, who are always on the hunt for the best products at the best prices. Working with our brand partners, we're pioneering innovative supply-chain and production processes and offer them an impactful and smart solution, creating a new way to shop for fashion - and a new way to sell it.
