THE ROLE & THE TEAM
Zalando's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) department is at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to building and maintaining our in-house CRM Platform. This platform is designed to enhance the meaning, relevancy, and engagement of our customers' journey across various communication channels..
As a Senior Data Engineer you will be a key player in expanding and maintaining our diverse portfolio of services. Your expertise will not only contribute to the ongoing success of our internally crafted systems but also play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic evolution of our platform.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be the starting point for fashion - 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://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion/our-employee-resource-groups
WHY YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED
- You will ship consistently working, testable, maintainable, readable code/data to production in small and safe iterations. The solutions are performant, scalable and fulfill the set SLOs of the product.
- You will develop, monitor, and operate data integration pipelines, deployed as applications on a PaaS/SaaS cloud (AWS/GCP), processing hundreds of millions of records to provide high-quality datasets for production, analytical and machine learning use-cases (i.e. customer-level KPI reporting, automation around A/B testing and other causal inference methods, algorithmic message steering).
- You will mentor team members and enable them to drive their development goals.
- You will take on the challenge of scaling the systems to process millions of events and requests per day.
- You will actively shape the architecture of the Communication Platform and ensure sustainability.
- You will make a positive impact on our engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and driving technical discussions within the team
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF YOU
- .. have professional development experience with Scala, Python and Java coding
- .. are passionate to write high quality and tested code with proper coverage.
- .. have data engineering and integration experience to utilize multiple data sources for production and reporting systems.
- .. have solid experience with data engineering technologies such as Spark, Apache Flink, Presto(Trino)..
- .. built up solid knowledge of relational databases, data modeling and solid experience in doing data analysis with SQL.
- .. became familiar with DevOps practices and technologies (Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, as well as CI/CD) with keen attention to meaningful logging, monitoring and overall operational excellence.
- .. are able to collaborate closely with product management with attention to shaping a great customer experience.
- .. carry a mentorship mindset to support team members in their development journey.
- .. own good verbal and written communication skills in English and able to present the thoughts in a clear and structured manner.
- .. gained knowledge about Spring Boot Microservices, PostgreSQL, processing requests and messages on a high scale would be a plus.
ZALANDO BENEFITS
Career Development
- We offer peer-to-peer performance reviews twice a year
- Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
- Join regular all-hands, team meetings, Q&A-sessions, and quarterly anonymous employee surveys to ask your questions and provide your feedback
- Support from an international team of experts; mentoring and professional development opportunities
Wellbeing
- 2 days paid leave per year for volunteering
- Minimum of 27 holiday days per calendar year
- Online sports courses, wellbeing, and nutrition advice offered by Humanoo