Engineering Manager - ZEOS Portal (all genders)

THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

The ZEOS B2B Portal is the face of our platform, serving as the central gateway for partners to manage their business within the Zalando ecosystem. As the Engineering Manager for the Portal and Portal Application team, you will lead the engineers responsible for building a seamless, high-performance, and intuitive user interface that unifies complex B2B services.

You will manage a cross-functional team of up to 10 engineers, fostering an environment where frontend excellence meets robust backend integration. Your mission is to ensure that the ZEOS Portal remains a best-in-class "Single Point of Entry" for our partners. You will collaborate closely with UX designers, Product Managers, and Principal Engineers to deliver a cohesive experience, ensuring that modularity (Micro Frontends), security, and performance are at the heart of every deployment.

With ZEOS we shape the future of the Zalando logistics ecosystem - please read more HERE.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

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!

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.

We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

Lead Full-Stack Strategy: Help shape a scalable and modular portal architecture across both frontend and backend layers. You'll ensure a seamless and intuitive experience for our partners, creating harmony across various applications, services, and internal tools.

Empower and Grow Talent: Hire and develop a diverse team of 10 engineers (5 frontend, 5 backend). You will focus on their professional growth, helping them master the balance between rapid feature delivery and high-quality engineering standards across the stack.

Bridge Design and Engineering: Work in close partnership with Product and UX Design leads to translation of user needs into technical roadmaps, leveraging modern web trends and Design Systems (DS) to increase development velocity.

Own the Portal Infrastructure: Take responsibility for the portal's backend infrastructure and services - overseeing deployments, scalability, uptime, and data flows that power the partner experience, in addition to frontend performance and CI/CD.

Champion Operational Health: Take full ownership of the portal's stability, frontend and backend. You will oversee CI/CD pipelines, monitor performance metrics across the stack, and ensure robust security (Okta/OpenID) and SEO-friendly architectures.

Navigate Architectural Choices: Provide the technical perspective needed to guide decisions around Micro Frontends (MFE), backend service design, SPA performance, and API architecture, ensuring the team builds extensible solutions without over-engineering.

Foster Smooth Delivery: Act as a catalyst for Agile best practices, removing blockers for your team and ensuring that cross-functional stakeholders are aligned on the portal's roadmap and release cycles.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

Proven People Leader: You bring 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a track record of building healthy, high-trust cultures and coaching senior talent in an international environment.

Full-Stack Portal Expert: You have a solid technical background in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Node.js) and backend systems (Java/Kotlin services, databases, messaging), with a deep understanding of Micro Frontend architectures, service design, and state management.

Platform & Infrastructure Owner: You are well-versed in designing and operating backend services and REST APIs, not just consuming them, and have hands-on experience with cloud-native deployments and infrastructure management (AWS/Kubernetes).

Cross-Functional Technical Leader: You've managed mixed frontend/backend teams before and are comfortable making technical trade-offs across the full stack, from UI rendering to backend service architecture.

Quality & Operations Focused: You have a strong "DevOps" mentality - you care about build times, automated testing, infrastructure reliability, and seamless deployments, ensuring a zero-downtime experience for our partners.

User-Centric Perspective: You understand that technical excellence is a means to an end. You are passionate about delivering value to the customer and can translate business requirements into clean, scalable software products.

Empowering Guide: You excel at giving your team the space to lead while offering the right level of support. You know how to balance looking at the "big picture" strategy with staying connected to the technical heart of the work.

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.

27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)

2 paid volunteering days a year

Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

Employee shares program

40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners

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