The Role & the Team
As a Backend Engineer for our Gift Cards Team, you will play a pivotal role in the end-to-end lifecycle of our products—from initial design to 24/7 operations. You will join a cross-functional squad of developers, designers, and analysts where your influence directly shapes our technical excellence and business impact.
While our core focus is backend, we embrace a growth mindset; you’ll have the opportunity to expand into frontend or full-stack engineering if that aligns with your passions. You will help us optimise a sophisticated tech stack featuring Kubernetes, AWS, Kotlin, Java, and Spring, ensuring our systems remain resilient as we scale.
What We’d Love You to Do (and Love Doing)
- Design & Deploy: Take full ownership of designing, developing, and operating end-to-end solutions that power our customer-facing gift card experiences.
- Champion Quality: Deliver high-quality software with a focus on clean API design, comprehensive automated testing, and system resilience.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to translate complex business needs into elegant technical realities.
- Optimise Infrastructure: Monitor and refine our cloud-native infrastructure running on Kubernetes and AWS to ensure peak performance.
- Grow the Community: Contribute to our vibrant tech culture by sharing knowledge and fostering an agile, continuous-learning environment.
We’d Love to Meet You If
- Technical Proficiency: You have a strong grasp of object-oriented programming, specifically with languages like Java or Kotlin.
- Distributed Systems: You have experience designing and operating microservices within a highly distributed, cloud-based environment (preferably AWS).
- Engineering Excellence: You are passionate about writing clean, maintainable, and testable code that stands the test of time.
- Modern Tooling: You are comfortable working with CI/CD pipelines and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Growth Mindset: You are enthusiastic about discovering new technologies and are eager to develop your skills in a fast-paced setting. 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!
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 counselling 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
