Frontend Engineer - search & Browse (hybrid)

Search And Browse Experience Engineer

At our Dublin Tech Hub, teams contribute to key pillars of our Fashion Store, including advanced personalization features. Combining full-stack engineering with cutting-edge research, we transform bold ideas into promising new ventures. By addressing some of the fashion industry's most complex challenges, we enhance the personal digital experience that powers an inspiring shopping journey for our customers.

In this role, you'll join the Search and Browse Experience team, led by an Engineering Manager. You'll collaborate with a driven, diverse group of engineers, working closely with Product Managers and Design experts. Your responsibility will be to develop high-quality, efficient solutions that elevate Zalando's Search and Browse experience, which serves over 50 million customers each month.

What We'd Love You To Do (And Love Doing)

• Design, develop, deploy, and operate software solutions that will improve Zalando's search and browse experience.
• Communicate with various stakeholders to understand the business context, and translate the requirements into technical designs.
• Act like an owner by taking up a challenge, work towards reducing ambiguity, and break the work down into manageable tasks for the team.
• Establish trust and technical excellence beyond the team and collaborate with other internal product and technology teams to build scalable systems which integrate into the larger context of Zalando.
• Continuously improve the performance of our systems, and your skill set as a software engineer and share knowledge with your colleagues.

We'd Love To Meet You If

• You are proficient in developing large-scale applications in Typescript & Javascript, NodeJS and React.
• You are not only experienced with integrating APIs but have a deep understanding of GraphQL and REST architectural styles.
• You consistently demonstrate an entrepreneurial, analytical, and customer-centric approach, and you have an insatiable desire to improve the experience for our customers.
• You have experience in all parts of the software development life cycle: building, testing, deploying, and operating in production.
• You have hands-on experience in improving front-end performance and observability and worked with front-end monitoring/logging tools like Sentry. You have an affinity for the reliability, monitoring, scalability, and performance of the app.
• You communicate effectively in English and can articulate complex technical solutions for product, design, and engineering teams.

Bonus / Nice To Haves…

• You have hands-on experience developing cross-platform mobile experiences with React Native.

Our Offer

• 40% off products sold and shipped by Zalando
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Hybrid working model
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
• 27 days of vacation per year to start
• A one-time allowance to set up an ergonomic workstation (outside of Zalando office)
• Health & Dental Insurance (opt-in)
• Pension scheme & match up to 10% (opt-in)
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
• Employee shares program
• Family services, including counseling and support
• Health and wellbeing options, including Gympass/Wellhub
• Mental health support and coaching available
• Professional development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer reviews

Inclusive By Design

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.

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!