Software Engineer - Experimentation Platform(m/w/x)

# Software Engineer - Experimentation Platform (all genders) **Berlin** | **Full time** # THE ROLE & THE TEAM As an engineer building our next-generation experimentation and feature management platform, you will be at the forefront of an initiative impacting how all product and engineering teams at Zalando innovate. You will be instrumental in building and scaling the systems that empower everyone – from Product Managers and Engineers to Analysts, Applied Scientists, and Designers – to move and innovate faster. Your core responsibilities will involve developing and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins key pillars: safe progressive delivery, easier and faster experimentation (including automated canary testing), and streamlined configuration management. This includes enhancing our measurement-driven progressive delivery processes, building the core engine for orchestrating sophisticated experiments, and ensuring the reliability and performance of our unified platform. By optimizing the internals of the platform, you will directly contribute to our 2027 strategy, enabling us to run more frequent experiments, adopt safer roll-out methodologies, and ultimately learn faster from data-driven insights. Your work will be crucial in fostering a culture of continuous learning and empowering every team to ship changes with increased confidence and speed, solidifying Zalando's position as the leading fashion platform through innovation. # INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce - one that is inclusive by design. We only assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, racial identities, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and disability statuses. We only want to know why you’re great for this role, so please avoid including your picture, age, and marital status in your CV as well. We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process. # WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING) * Strive for engineering excellence in the development, and release of SDKs, take pride in owning code quality, and deploy the microservices on cloud native technologies like Kubernetes. * Dedicate yourself to ensuring the operational health of our systems and be proactive in preparing them for massive sale events like Cyber Week. * Engage in understanding our customer needs, support them with experimentation platform best practices and build smart solutions to enable data driven decisions across the organization. * Embrace a growth mindset, partner with applied scientists and senior engineers to maintain and enhance the assignment algorithms allowing for trusted online experiments. * Passionately share your expertise, seek mentorship opportunities, and actively contribute to our internal guilds. # # WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF * You have a good understanding of Golang and Typescript. Experience with frontend development is a big plus * Hands-on experience with the full SDK lifecycle, including design, development, versioning, and release management. * You have a good understanding of microservice architecture, REST services and API design. * You are acquainted with deploying and operating applications in a cloud infrastructure. * Passionate about operational excellence with a keen attention to monitoring and logging. * You are experienced working in diverse environments and have great English communication skills. 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! # # OUR OFFER Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer. * Employee shares program * 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners * 2 paid volunteering days a year * Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration * Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year * 27 days of vacation a year to start for full-time employees * Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement) * Family services, including counseling and support * Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass) * Mental health support and coaching available * Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review