As Engineering Lead within our Merchant Operations department you will lead teams who build resilient systems to handle million requests per day without downtime. Your actions have a high impact in making Zalando become the best high quality Marketplace in the Fashion Industry. Ensuring article data quality, handling high-volume transactional and sensitive data, working on public facing interfaces for both developers and merchants and building applications from scratch, your teams optimise the overall merchant experience at an incredible, international scale. WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED Develop and execute mid- & long-term technical vision and architectural direction to:  Create highly scalable solutions Facilitate collaboration, communication and decision-making between the engineering team, product specialists and stakeholders. You partner with product owners, engineering and architecture teams to influence product strategy and drive the product development roadmap Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents to your team and transform the landscape of Zalando’s Merchant platform WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR A solid background in software engineering with a strong understanding of core priorities, KPI’s and underlying system architecture Significant experience leading and developing cross-functional engineering teams within an international, agile environment. You have effective communication skills in English, with an ability to understand and translate business and user requirements across teams Extensive experience in object-oriented and functional programming languages with a profound knowledge of REST APIs and highly distributed, scalable and resilient micro services landscapes You think creatively, are solution oriented, adaptable to change, and have a drive for continuous innovation Responsible for maintaining trustful relationship with your teams, leading them and setting a high standard as an example Keeping business in mind, you are capable of making your teams accountable and responsible for decisions made by providing strong sense of ownership. At Zalando Merchant Operations we use a variety of languages, but most of our backend systems are written in Scala .  We do have services written in Java, Go, NodeJS, Haskell and many more . PERKS AT WORK Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties and events Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings Extensive on boarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an International team of experts Relocation assistance for internationals, family service and parent & child rooms We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. ABOUT ZALANDO Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use. Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.

As a Head of Engineering, you lead a team of 20+ data & BI-engineers. You will implement best practice processes to create an agile, fast and efficiently working team. You will provide technical direction and ongoing leadership for the department which builds all planning and reporting products within Category Management. WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED Impact. You drive team mastery in world-class engineering and development techniques to deliver fast, stable and scalable production system and AI models. You mentor your Engineering Managers to help their teams make the right decisions fast, but you also don’t mind rolling up your sleeves to provide hands-on technical guidance Vision. You co-own the product vision and roadmap. You are responsible for knowing what it takes to achieve our vision, for setting ambitious but attainable goals, for ensuring that your teams’ estimates are reliable, and for developing the architecture vision and technology roadmap to drive Zalando’s core business. Collaboration. You facilitate collaboration, communication and decision-making between different data engineering teams and stakeholders. You partner with Senior Product leaders, other Engineering and Architecture leaders to build the best possible solutions for Zalando by following the agile approach. Growth. You attract, assemble and retain the right engineering talent while cultivating a culture of ownership, mastery, innovation and purpose. Development. You drive continuous improvement and develop your Engineering Managers to become bar raisers and future Leaders within Zalando. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Leadership. You bring extensive experience in people management and agile development environment. (coaching, team-building and conflict resolution. ) Experience. In designing, coding and operating large-scale data-heavy business processes implementations and in solving data science and data integration challenges, preferable in an e-commerce environment. You possess a sharp analytical mind and proven ability to understand and analyze complex processes, structures and problems supported by a strong methodical approach. Technologies. Hands-on experience with at least one programming language like Java, Scala or Python and interest in the newest developments in data engineering technologies. You have already built large scale platforms using microservices, machine learning, data technologies such as Spark, Presto, Hadoop or Kafka running on AWS in container solutions like docker. You are familiar with RDBMS like Oracle, Exasol or MS SQL, reporting systems such as MicroStrategy or Tableau. Execution. In delivering great products on-time and within budget with an attention to detail, ability to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways; recognise opportunities to innovate and engage stakeholders in vision and strategy. Education. In holding BS / MS in Computer Science, a Data Science field or a related discipline YOU ARE OFFERED Culture. A culture of trust, empowerment and feedback; 100+ internal guilds; tech talks; product demos; coder dojos. Perks. Competitive salary; great shopping discount on a wide range of products on zalando.com; discounts from external partners; public transport discounts; relocation assistance for internationals; municipality services*; flexible working times; family service and parent & child rooms*; additional holidays & volunteering time off; diverse sports and health offerings*. (*Depending on location) Development. Extensive onboarding, personal branding support focused on leadership, opportunity to attend and speak at conferences. Peers. International, accomplished experts and self-organized, autonomous teams. Want to join us? Then go ahead and apply!! Start the conversation. Tell us what the next step in your career could be.