Fullstack Engineer with Scala and TypeScript

Fullstack Engineer with Scala and TypeScript

About the Role

As a Full Stack Engineer at Zalando, you will collaborate closely with Search Engine Optimization Experts to implement solutions that help our customers find the perfect matches for their fashion-related searches. Our team is responsible for the content visibility and discovery of articles via search engines and for our customers. We manage the indexation and exposure of articles and fashion-related content to ensure that Zalando ranks highly in search results, providing customers the ability to discover the articles they are looking for in our shop. Managing this multitude of information is a challenging task.

Another important task of the team is to ensure that the metadata on the pages in our shop is up to date, reflecting seasonality and trends. To fulfill these objectives, we operate a large number of services, all working together in a microservice setup. The performance of our systems is vital for both Zalando and our consumers, making it important to make them robust, reliable, and highly available from the get-go.

Our software products are built with Kotlin, Scala, and JavaScript and deployed as microservices on AWS using Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Create highly scalable solutions and own the entire development cycle - from architecture design to implementation, testing, and maintenance.
• Own your code and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications, based on a microservices architecture.
• Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions.
• Play a leading part in evolving and scaling our systems as per our business demands.
• Own service operational duties, including monitoring and keeping them up running and healthy.
• Solve business problems in the best possible way, while being a highly dynamic team that embraces change.
• Contribute to the tech community within the department as well as on a company level; take an active role in onboarding new team members and mentoring junior colleagues.

Requirements

• A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals combined with a strong capacity for solving complex problems with roughly 5 years of hands-on software development in a commercial setting.
• Experience with designing and building microservices in a JVM-based programming language (solid background in using Kotlin, Scala, or Java required), experience with JavaScript (NodeJS and React primarily, TypeScript is a plus).
• Cloud architecture experience (preferably AWS and Kubernetes).
• Experience with maintaining databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and designing well-defined database schemas.
• "You build it, you run it" approach experience managing services end-to-end, from developing to deploying to monitoring and incident support.
• Knowledge in architecture/design methods and patterns, data and API specifications, quality assurance, and testing methods.
• Great communication skills in English.

What We Offer

• Culture of trust, empowerment, and constructive feedback.
• Open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal and fun guilds.
• Knowledge sharing through talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties, and events.
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, training platform, and training budget.
• Free language courses (English / German), pension scheme, 40% Zalando shopping discount on most products from our catalog, discounts from external partners.
• Centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays, and volunteering time off.
• Diverse online accessible sports and health offerings (such as an extensive Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members).
• Extensive onboarding, mentoring, and personal development opportunities and access to an international team of experts and a very diverse group of colleagues.
• Sponsorship for VISAs, relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service, and parent & child rooms (available only in selected locations).

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment is decided based on qualifications and business need.

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