Software Engineer - ZMS Content

Join us to help drive the development of the ZMS advertisement platform that strives to inspire, engage, and inform Zalando shoppers through unparalleled brand-curated and highly relevant advertising experiences, seamlessly supporting our customers' shopping journey by empowering our partners to promote their brands, stories, and products. As a Software Engineer in the content team, you will join a team of six engineers responsible for the content that Zalando partners (brands, retailers, etc.) show in Zalando, including organic and sponsored content. You will own both the look and feel of the different formats, like Boards, Landing Pages, and Showstopper Ads, as well as the Content Studio tooling that partners use to upload their assets and compose these formats. The role is mainly backend focused, but there will be multiple instances where some frontend capabilities will come into play.

• Build and Improve: Build and improve our Content Studio toolkit that enables our fashion brands to directly plan, execute, and monitor advertising campaigns on Zalando's advertisement platform
• Deliver Features: Decompose epics into manageable tasks, owning the execution from requirement refinement through to deployment and production operations
• Maintain Engineering Excellence: Elevate our codebase through readable, testable, and maintainable code, writing automated tests and defining clear acceptance criteria
• Collaborate and Share Knowledge: Actively participate in team discussions, help skill up your peers, and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering peers
• Operate What You Build: Deliver the supporting operational elements (metrics, alerting, graphs, tracing) to monitor performance and assist in root-cause analysis during production incidents

• You’re proficient with 3+ years of experience in a Java-based language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Scala) and can quickly learn new technologies. Knowledge of JavaScript is a plus, but not required.
• You have experience in developing backend applications, designing and developing APIs, and event-driven services
• You have solid knowledge of operational excellence and cloud-oriented infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, etc.)
• You collaborate with product teams to understand user needs, call out conflicting requirements, and understand the core business KPIs your system impacts
• You deconstruct complexity when faced with a set of requirements, methodically breaking them down into small, safe deployment iterations while navigating technical constraints