WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• Proven People Leader: You bring 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a track record of building healthy, high-trust cultures and coaching senior talent in an international environment.
• Full-Stack Portal Expert: You have a solid technical background in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Node.js) and backend systems (Java/Kotlin services, databases, messaging), with a deep understanding of Micro Frontend architectures, service design, and state management.
• Platform & Infrastructure Owner: You are well-versed in designing and operating backend services and REST APIs, not just consuming them, and have hands-on experience with cloud-native deployments and infrastructure management (AWS/Kubernetes).
• Cross-Functional Technical Leader: You've managed mixed frontend/backend teams before and are comfortable making technical trade-offs across the full stack, from UI rendering to backend service architecture.
• Quality & Operations Focused: You have a strong "DevOps" mentality - you care about build times, automated testing, infrastructure reliability, and seamless deployments, ensuring a zero-downtime experience for our partners.
• User-Centric Perspective: You understand that technical excellence is a means to an end. You are passionate about delivering value to the customer and can translate business requirements into clean, scalable software products.
• Empowering Guide: You excel at giving your team the space to lead while offering the right level of support. You know how to balance looking at the "big picture" strategy with staying connected to the technical heart of the work.

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
• Employee shares program
• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
• 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

Recruiter Bettina Melis bettina.melis@zalando.de