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.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our 'Pricing Tool' team.  

It is an opportunity to join a team responsible for developing a portfolio of key tools that enable us to price around 500,000 products offered in our 25+ web shops. The team uses a Java-based technology stack. 

 Here are some things about us that we take pride in:   

• We work in small self-organized teams.   

• We learn from each other and share knowledge, through methods such as pair programming, code reviews, hackathons, and training.   

• We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products, and improving all the infrastructure we need for it.   

• We build quality into our code by following clean code principles and DevOps practices - you build it, you run it.   

• We embrace and enjoy diversity, having colleagues from many different countries. This means our working language is English.   

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have the opportunity to:   

• Develop and continuously deliver applications for one of the most successful e-commerce platforms in Europe.   

• Participate in the complete software development life cycle from conceptualization through coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.   

• Work autonomously in an agile team.  

• Participate actively and collaboratively in Daily meetings, Planning, Refinements, Reviews, and Retrospectives.   

• Participate in technical/architectural discussions and decisions as a team. 

• Take on new challenges, by working on new initiatives and/or products, when needed.  

• Deliver value and quality by developing new features, maintaining existing products, and improving the provisioning of the underlying infrastructure.  

• Discover and solve the digital challenges of delivering a full e-commerce stack.  

• Strive for mastery in a challenging agile environment using state-of-the-art technologies.   

Technology Stack:    

• Java 

• Frameworks: Spring, Angular, React

• Testing: JUnit 

• Database: PostgreSQL, Oracle, AWS DocumentDB 

• At least 5 plus years experience in a similar role  

• Working experience on a Java-based technology stack  

• Practical experience in backend development  

• Comfortable with frontend tasks  

• Experience in designing robust software architectures (this one only for senior) 

• Experience in dealing with version control systems (GIT)  

• An agile mindset and ideally already experience with Scrum, Kanban, or XP  

• Solution-driven and collaborative approach  

• Fluency in English   

Must haves:

• Experience with JVM programming languages (Kotlin, Java, Groovy, etc.)
• Experience developing 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.

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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zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.