Senior Backend Engineer | Senior Backend Engineer (all gender)

Zalando SE

Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
Published Sep 19, 2025
Full-time
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Job Summary

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering direct impact to over 50 million Zalando customers across 25 countries. You will be instrumental in building and maintaining large-scale backend microservices, focusing on Sports & Beauty propositions within fashion and lifestyle e-commerce. This role involves designing and implementing systems that enhance customer experience and relevancy through proposition-specific profiles and the Zalando Fashion Assistant. You'll work within an agile, cross-functional team, utilizing technologies like Java/Scala, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes on AWS. This position is ideal for someone passionate about scalable microservice architectures, operational excellence, and mentoring junior colleagues, all while contributing to a leading pan-European e-commerce ecosystem.

Required Skills

Education

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Experience

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Experience in designing large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS)
  • Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Scala) and NodeJS (TypeScript)
  • Experience with REST APIs design and event-driven architectures
  • Experience scaling Database systems (SQL or no-SQL)
  • Experience in collaboration with engineering teams, managers, and product stakeholders

Languages

English (Fluent)

Additional

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