Full-stack Engineer (All Genders)

Company Description

With over 25 years’ experience, plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one, we’re trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier – and that’s something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt; embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. That’s the power of plus.

Job Description

We are looking for a Full-stack Engineer with an awareness of the full development cycle: from design to deployment, including testing, to join our Pricing-Tool team. In this team we are responsible for analyzing, designing, and creating business products that allow Zooplus to engage new customers, increase customer retention and save margin in our promotions.

As a Full-stack Engineer, you will:

• work with your team and product owner designing technical solutions for business challenges.
• work in an Agile environment in close collaboration with other teams.
• develop & deliver applications for our e-commerce platform.
• automate test suites to maintain high quality standards.
• operate & patch our production applications.
• support our users with any doubts or issues they might have.
• use state of the art technologies and practices

Here are some aspects of our team and work environment that contribute to our success:

• Our team is self-organized & autonomous. We need a team member that proactively shares their opinion and concerns on business requirements.
• We build and run our applications. We need a new colleague that is cross functional, with backend strength and a DevOps mindset.
• We want to deliver software in a sustainable way, clean code and quality are important for us.
• Our environment encourages open communication and teamwork. We need somebody that wants to be an active part of it.
• We constantly challenge existing solutions and processes to find ways to do even better.
• We are pragmatic engineers.

These are some of the technologies/frameworks/practices we use:

• For backend code: Java (spring).
• For frontend code: React (including Node tooling), Typescript
• We have both Oracle, AWS DocumentDB and Postgres SQL databases.
• We have test suites for backend code in JUnit.
• We manage our infrastructure in AWS with terraform.
• We use k8s, ELK, prometheus, jenkins, ...

Your responsibilities

• Proactively participate in solution design, planning and alignment with your team and other teams.
• Support users, helping them make great use of our products while finding possible improvements.
• Implement and deliver digital products and features. Give and be open to receiving constructive feedback.
• Test your code and peers' code thoroughly to find possible bugs before launching to production.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code project and pipelines.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience with JVM-based programming languages 
• Experience in full-stack development of production-ready applications.
• Experience working with relational SQL databases.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated test suites.
• Experience building and maintaining React-based front-ends.
• Willingness to contribute to every software development phase (not just coding).
• Effective communication skills to deal with support requests from our users and the other teams in the company.
• Strong sense of autonomy and self-organization.
• Good English verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Information

Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you’ll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you’ll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you’ll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.

At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.

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