ABOUT THE TEAM As a Backend Engineer in the Search and Browse Discovery team, you will be delivering a direct impact to more than 50 million Zalando customers in 25 countries and growing. You will take the Ranking and Retrieval systems to the next level, currently, we have around 15M searchable articles in our Elasticsearch (around ~600 nodes with ~150 indexes) and everything including Elasticsearch is hosted on Kubernetes WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED Be a part of an agile, experienced backend engineering team to developing the Retrieval and Ranking systems Design,build and maintain scalable backend technologies such as Scala, Java, Elasticsearch, Nakadi, and Kubernetes systems that enhance personalized search and browse experiences. Ensure a state-of-the-art software development methodology Optimize search ranking and recommendation logic through backend engineering. Write and review solution designs for complex backend challenges. Drive operational excellence, ensuring system performance, reliability, and maintainability. Share your knowledge with your colleagues helping them to grow their technical skills Interact with various teams and stakeholders with different backgrounds and with a large spectrum of competencies WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR Ability to design large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS) Experience with REST APIs design and event-driven architectures Experience with scaling a large-scale Database system (SQL or no-SQL) Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala), experience with Scala is a plus Advocating for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development PERKS AT WORK 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, great IT equipment, 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, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations) We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. Zalando SE Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 35 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use. Please note that all the applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.