Senior Software Engineer - JAVA Fullstack Developer (all genders)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

Zalando Bucharest is our newest site designed to consolidate and scale expert services, ensuring operational excellence as we evolve our global footprint. Our team builds, maintains, and optimizes next-generation ERP applications. As a Full-Stack Senior SAP Engineer, you will drive the technical evolution of our system landscape. You will develop high-quality solutions using ABAP Cloud (RAP), SAP CAP (Node.js), and BTP services based on business requirements across various ERP functional areas. The focus is on developing high-performance solutions, modern data architectures, and seamless integration into our S/4HANA environment.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.

We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion

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

• Engineer Robust Integrations: You’ll build and maintain efficient, reliable transactional data integration solutions that serve as the backbone of our operations.

• Develop APIs & Event-Driven Systems: You’ll develop and maintain scalable RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures to ensure seamless data exchange between diverse applications and services.

• Ensure Operational Excellence: You’ll monitor our data pipelines and integrations, proactively spotting and resolving issues to keep them running flawlessly in a high-volume production environment.

• Optimize Performance: You’ll support the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our core services, leading troubleshooting efforts and implementing continuous performance improvements.

• Collaborate & Solve Complexities: You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional and platform teams to identify, address, and solve complex system integration challenges.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF...

• You Are a Java Authority: You bring 7+ years of hands-on experience in Java programming and solid expertise within the Spring framework (or a comparable Java ecosystem). Experience with Spring Batch is a definite plus.

• You Build Robust Integrations: You have strong experience building and maintaining highly scalable RESTful APIs. You are also hands-on with Kafka or similar distributed streaming frameworks to build resilient, event-driven architectures. (Bonus points if you have experience integrating with enterprise systems like SAP).

• You Master the Data Layer: You are highly proficient with relational databases such as PostgreSQL. You don't just query data; you intimately understand database design, optimization, and query performance tuning at scale.

• You Champion DevOps & Code Quality: You have strong expertise in unit testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles. You have proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and are familiar with "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) best practices. Strong, hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (K8s) is considered a significant advantage.

• You Are a Collaborative Communicator: You possess excellent communication skills and know how to adapt your technical messaging for different contexts and audiences. You bring a true team-player mentality and actively seek to share knowledge and elevate the developers around you.

OUR OFFER 

• Experience the financial backing, market stability and massive operational structure of the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle, combined with the autonomy, agility and risk-taking spirit of a founder. 

• Work on a scale where your daily technical choices, architecture decisions and code deployment directly shape the experience of over 60 million active users across Europe. 

• Our open and collaborative tech radar is a shared platform that inspires our teams to pick the best technologies for new projects, reflect on technical decisions and continuously evolve our software development landscape. 

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review.