Job Description

Location
Berlin
Contract
Full time
Job Category

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Frontend Engineer, you will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will be building systems that will solve major customer challenges around Sports & Beauty in fashion & lifestyle e-commerce and build systems to take customer experience to the next level.



In the Customer Engagement team we aim to understand customer needs and interests through proposition-specific profiles (e.g. Beauty & Sports Profile) and Zalando Fashion Assistant (ZFA) and increase customer relevancy in product presentation and recommendations.


Find out more about our Software engineering team: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/what-we-do/software-engineering

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)

Be a part of an agile, experienced cross-functional engineering team to build systems for Sports & Beauty Propositions with a major focus on serving capabilities for our clients. Design, build and maintain large-scale applications using technologies such as TypeScript, React / React Native, NodeJS, GraphQL and Kubernetes. Improve front-end performance and observability using tools like Sentry. Ensure a state-of-the-art software development methodology. Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and with a large spectrum of competencies. Share your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills. Help us become better, provide active feedback, mentor and support the development of more junior colleagues.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

You have 5+ years of professional experience software development experience You are proficient in Typescript, React / React Native, CSS and have experience with GraphQL. You are experienced with REST APIs design and developing large-scale applications with NodeJS. You have experience in all parts of the software development life cycle: building, testing, deploying, and operating in production. You have hands-on experience in improving front-end performance and observability. You advocate for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, experience in writing technical documentation. You have experience in collaboration with engineering teams, managers, and product stakeholders from different backgrounds. You consistently demonstrate an entrepreneurial, analytical, and customer-centric approach.


If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to