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About the Role
Join the Search Retrieval Team, the engine driving product and content discovery for Zalando. We build and operate the core search engine that connects over 62 million active customers across 29 markets with the products and content they love. Our mission is to deliver a world-class, intelligent, scalable, and reliable Search Platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of our next-generation, AI-driven search engine, integrating Neural Search on top of our Elasticsearch platform.
- Modernize and scale our real-time data ingestion systems using technologies like Kafka and Flink to handle millions of updates.
- Develop core platform capabilities that enable teams across Zalando to build rich, personalized discovery experiences for our customers.
- Lead platform-wide infrastructure projects, such as consolidating multi-lingual search indices, mitigating critical risks by migrating core services, and supporting system readiness for high-traffic events like Cyber Week.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building large-scale, preferably e-commerce, search engines.
- Equivalent expertise in Lucene, OpenSearch, Solr, or other distributed search systems is highly valued.
- Proven ability to design and build high-throughput data ingestion pipelines using Kafka and/or Flink or equivalent stream-processing frameworks.
- High proficiency in a JVM language (Java, Kotlin, or Scala).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Thrive when working closely with fellow engineers, applied scientists, and product partners.
- Possess a knack for translating complex product requirements into reusable, reliable platform capabilities.
Skills
- Elasticsearch
- Lucene
- OpenSearch
- Solr
- Kafka
- Flink
- JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala)
- Distributed systems architecture
- Concurrency
- Performance optimization
- Neural Search
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Employee shares program
- 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando
- 30% off Zalando Lounge
- Discounts from external partners
- 2 paid volunteering days a year
- 27 days of vacation a year
- Relocation assistance available
- Family services, including counseling and support
- Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
- Mental health support and coaching available
About the Company
- Zalando provides a range of benefits.
- Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us
Equal Opportunity
- At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design.
- 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.
- do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
- Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups