Senior Backend Engineer - Content Experiences

Content Experiences is a growing multi-disciplinary group of 100+ engineers, data scientists, business developers, product designers, and product managers in Helsinki and Berlin, working to inspire each individual customer with meaningful fashion moments beyond transactions in a very personalized way. Our cross-functional team of software and data engineers is focused on optimizing value streams in the content domain by building a world class content platform as a fundamental service of our fashion platform. Our (micro) services are written in functional Scala and partially operate in a high load environment with up to 10k RPS. To further strengthen our efforts to improve our platform offering, we are looking for a passionate Senior Backend Engineer striving on the ideas of finely crafted software, operational excellence and building a world class platform.

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.

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

Consistently ship working, testable, maintainable, readable code/data to production in small and safe iterations. The solutions are performant, scalable and fulfil the set SLOs of the product.

Own and operate backend microservices on top of Kubernetes and AWS.

Making a positive impact on our engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and driving technical discussions within the team and beyond.

Have high proficiency in at least one high level programming language, preferably Scala.

Are passionate about your customers/users.

Have competence with distributed event-driven systems.

Have experience with creating and consuming GraphQL APIs, that operate at scale, are easy to use, self-documented and have the caller’s perspective always in mind.

Are familiar with DevOps practices and technologies (Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, as well as CI/CD) with keen attention to meaningful logging, monitoring and overall operational excellence.

Prefer iterative (agile) development and KISS principle.

Possess good verbal and written communication skills in English and able to present the thoughts in a clear and structured manner.

OUR OFFER

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, 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.