Engineering Lead Frontend - ZALON
Berlin, Germany Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering
Job description
Job Category
· Technology & UX/UI Design
Location
· Berlin
Contract
· Full-Time
· Professional Level
· Management Level
Company
· Zalando SE
As an Engineering Lead Frontend at Zalon you will be mainly responsible for supporting, challenging and growing the members of your teams by making them the strongest engineers they can be. You will be working as a lead the build and maintain our customer facing applications, while executing complex projects with various stakeholders through the whole company and lead autonomous teams.
Zalon is the successful story of curating and delivering complete outfits for our customers. Part of Europe’s Leading Technology Fashion Platform , we live and breathe excellent software engineering.
Zalon ‘s Technology Teams are self-organizing and develop products end-to-end, from requirements to production. We are a mix of product specialists, designers, software engineers, research engineers and data scientists who collaborate to create and innovate unique solutions to complex technical and product challenges.
We have a cloud-based microservices architecture - we work with a leading-edge technology stack comprised of JavaScript, React.JS, Swift, RxJava, REST APIs, Spark, Python, Play/Scala, PostgreSQL, Docker / Jenkins amongst others - check our Tech Radar for more information on the technologies we use.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
· Experience (over 3 years) in building, developing and managing a team of engineers in an agile environment (product development, ideally e-commerce). Plus, minimum 3-4 years of hands-on coding with relevant programming languages.
· Strong interest and ideally hands-on experience in client development.
· AWS, RESTful APIs and microservices are also on your preferred skill-set list.
· Passion for still being a hands-on lead (mentoring, coaching, career development, hands-on engineering), who understands scalability, high-availability, DDD (or Design Driven Development), monitoring, architecture & design of state-of-the-art websites and the systems that drive them.
· You can lead groups and feel comfortable in coaching teams in finding the best possible solution.
· A degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
· Excellent written and verbal communications skills and English language fluency.
YOUR ROLE:
· You will easily find your way and lead our Frontend Development engineers in their cross-functional teams through complex, distributed systems, and call-on the principles of highly available, scalable, maintainable and highly-performing services.
· You develop and execute the mid- & long-term technical vision and architecture with your teams while fostering close collaboration with other Engineering Leads to be in line with our overall tech strategy.
· You support the teams in defining OKRs to achieve a high-level alignment and facilitate collaboration, communication and decision-making between different engineering teams and stakeholders.
· You act as sparring partner to Product Owners / Product Specialists when creating the product vision.
· You will attract and retain diverse talent to your teams and cultivate a culture of ownership, autonomy, mastery, innovation and purpose.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
· Tech culture of trust and empowerment, open source commitment , meetups , game nights, +100 internal technical and fun guilds, tech talks, product demos, Coderdojos, Hack weeks , parties and events.
· Competitive salary and equity option, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, public transport discounts, relocation assistance for internationals, free drinks and fruits, hardware of your choice.
· Tour of Mastery , extensive onboarding, personal branding support, opportunity to attend and speak at related Conferences and Meetups, and encouragement to publish your work.
· Work Environment. Self-organized, autonomous teams and flexible working hours. Zalon is a 2.5-year-old start-up backed up by Zalando SE, therefore you can expect that your work will have immediate impact and you will participate in developing significant improvements.
Want to join us? Then go ahead and !
Please make sure your application is written in English. If you have any questions about our recruiting and hiring processes, or if you are not sure whether your qualifications and work experience is suffice, please contact your recruiter: Andreea Lungulescu.