ABOUT THE TEAM
Zalando Marketing Service (ZMS) stands for a new era of marketing in e-commerce. The company helps partners to shape love brands, create strong customer relationships, and accelerate their business, by integrating data-infused and inspirational marketing. ZMS enables fashion, beauty and lifestyle partners to engage with ~50 million active customers across 25 European markets on Zalando and beyond, and provides access to exclusive fashion and lifestyle audiences. Based on deep customer insights, smart marketing tools, assortment and content creation expertise across >50K campaigns, ZMS drives the marketing and sales impact of its partners seamlessly along the path to purchase, from brand awareness, to consideration and conversion.
Team Audiences is responsible for building and maintaining our customer segmentation platform. We leverage advanced data processing techniques and custom machine learning solutions to enhance the precision and impact of the targeted marketing campaigns at Zalando Marketing Services.
As a data engineer, you will be part of the core team that designs, develops and operates our segmentation platform. The technical scope covers large-scale batch processing, ETL, managing cloud resources and data analysis.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be the starting point for fashion - 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.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion/our-employee-resource-groups
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
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Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Engineers, Product Managers, Analysts, and Applied Scientists to ideate, design and build our audience builder platform.
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Refine and evolve our batch-processing pipelines, ensuring efficiency and scalability.
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Own your code and participate in operational duties, including monitoring and maintaining service health and performance.
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Contribute to maintaining code quality and best practices, including active participation in code reviews.
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Contribute to system design and help us build robust data systems.
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF:
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You have some experience in building and operating data processing pipelines at scale. We currently use Airflow as our scheduler and Spark as our processing engine.
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You have a solid foundation in software engineering and are comfortable writing clean, testable and performant code.
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You have hands-on experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and are comfortable deploying to container-first CI/CD pipelines.
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You are proficient in SQL, Python and Scala/Java.
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You are invested in data quality. Concepts like data lineage, governance and privacy are not just buzzwords, but are crucial to your professional ethos.
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with our tech stack, we encourage you to apply anyway. We value data processing and architecture expertise over specific tools and frameworks.
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.
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Employee shares program
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40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
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2 paid volunteering days a year
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Hybrid working model, with flexible hours and up to 60% remote
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Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
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27 days of vacation a year to start
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Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
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Family services, including counselling and support
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Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
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Mental health support and coaching available
ABOUT ZALANDO & ZALANDO MARKETING SERVICES
It’s the perfect time to join Zalando’s journey, from being a pioneer in the world of e-commerce, to becoming the Starting Point for Fashion in Europe. We connect customers, brands, and partners across 25 markets.
Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 49 million active customers.
Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS) is the 360° marketing unit of Europe ’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, Zalando. We work with the world’s largest fashion and lifestyle brands and provide them with impactful solutions across all marketing touchpoints, access to relevant audiences and in-depth data knowledge, as well as inspiring creation and content.
At ZMS we create meaningful connections between brands and consumers through a deep understanding of their personalities. We work with brands, agencies and publishers from fashion and beyond to produce innovative, impactful campaigns that reach the right audience at the right moment. Thanks to its holistic mix of cutting-edge and privacy compliant technology, in-depth audience insights, expansive reach and compelling content brands produce successful campaigns across multiple digital marketing channels.
For more information check out this link:https://zms.zalando.com/
Our values: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-founding-mindset
do.More - our sustainability strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/domore-our-sustainability-strategy
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/insidezalando
Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.
Top Skills
What We Do
Welcome to Zalando. Here’s some key info about us:
Our position and vision:
- We’re Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle
- Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to more than 50 million active customers in 25 markets; offering clothes, footwear, accessories, and beauty
- Our vision is to become The Starting Point For Fashion.
Our offering:
- Our assortment of international brands ranges from world-famous names to local labels
- Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation, and interaction
- As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners, and friends of our brand.
- Our logistics network with 12 centrally located fulfillment centers allows us to efficiently serve our customers throughout Europe, supported by warehouses in Italy, France, Poland, and Sweden with a focus on local customer needs.
Our beliefs:
- Our ambition is to combine our passion for self-expression through fashion with our unwavering commitments to sustainability and D&I
- We believe that our integration of fashion, operations, and online technology gives us the capability to deliver a compelling value proposition to both our customers and fashion brand partners.
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