Desired Skills and Experience
- Professional experience in at least one programming language, preferably a JVM language (Java or Scala)
- Experience with building or running large-scale applications (Java or Scala)
- Experience with one more scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, Bash, Shell etc
- Enthusiasm for Microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Sound knowledge of designing cloud architectures and experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Good understanding of Linux, networking & databases
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, and a demonstrated ability to find creative solutions to technical problems
- Any experience with Kubernetes would be a distinct advantage
- A degree in mathematics or computer science
- Fluent in English
- Innovate, design, and implement solutions to maintain availability, reliability and efficiency of the services offered by Zalando Payments.
- Communicate effectively with our engineering teams in this regard.
- Keep our mission-critical systems up and running, automating all handling of failure conditions.
- Capacity planning, definition of service level indicators, and analysis of system performance.
- Periodic on-call duty.
- Plan and conduct fire drills (failure testing) with teams.
- One-month mentoring program
- Internal tech talks, skills-building courses and technical “People Leads” who help you achieve mastery
- Personal branding support: From preparing tech talks and blog posts to networking with industry leaders
- Community: hack weeks, movie nights, coder dojos, +70 self-organized tech guilds and more
- Competitive salary
- Zalando shopping discount and commuter discount
- Relocation assistance for internationals