Senior Backend Engineer (all genders) - Partner Tech

Senior Backend Engineer (all genders) - Partner Tech

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

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

• Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to build systems for authentication and authorization with a major focus on keeping high security standards to secure our partners.
• Design, build and maintain large-scale backend microservices using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes.
• Decide on the technologies and tools to deliver and operate scalable microservice-based applications on AWS.
• 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

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to design large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS). Knowledge of IAM systems such as Okta, Keycloak or Styra is a plus.
• Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala), REST APIs design and event-driven architectures, scaling a large-scale Database system (SQL or no-SQL).
• Advocating for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development.
• Collaboration with engineering teams, managers, and product stakeholders from different backgrounds.
• Basic frontend knowledge as React framework is a plus.

OUR 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 counseling 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.