Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (all genders)

At Tradebyte, we work with the biggest players in e-commerce - from trendsetting fashion brands to major online retailers. Our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered.

We offer flexible work schedules, professional development opportunities, and a real commitment to work-life balance. We embrace diverse perspectives and ensure that every voice is heard and respected, because you’re unique and that matters to us.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for new colleagues who share our passion. Love what you do - do what you love. Join Tradebyte, an independent company within the Zalando Group!

THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

As a software engineer in one of our core product teams, you’ll help shape the modern evolution of our technology. We’re building scalable, high performance software that powers thousands of brands and retailers across Europe.

You’ll contribute to a growing ecosystem designed for resilience, speed and customer impact. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to talk!

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

As a key member of our engineering team, you will drive the development of our user-facing features. You'll take ideas from concept to production, ensuring we build scalable, high-quality, and user-friendly applications.

Design & Develop: Architect, build, and maintain clean, efficient, and reusable code using modern React and TypeScript.

Problem Solve: Take a proactive approach by suggesting, researching, and implementing solutions to complex technical challenges.

Collaborate: Work closely with Product Management and Design to refine requirements and with your team to design robust technical solutions. You'll translate ambiguous ideas into practical features.

Own Your Work: Take full ownership of the features you build, including writing comprehensive unit and component tests to ensure quality and long-term maintainability.

Innovate & Improve: Always look for opportunities to make things better, whether it's enhancing the user interface, improving performance, or mentoring other engineers. Your creativity and attention to detail will be key.

Align & Lead: Act as a technical leader within your team and on cross-team projects, helping to align on solution designs and driving significant deliverables forward.

Proven ability and experience developing modern SaaS applications with React and Typescript.

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrable experience with modern React
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript
• Experience with fetching and caching tools like React Query
• A solid understanding of REST API principles and Open API

Quality & Testing:

• You have experience with unit and component testing using frameworks like Jest and React Testing Library
• You have experience with E2E Tests using Playwright or Cypress

Mindset & Communication:

• You have a proactive approach, constantly suggesting and finding solutions
• Your creativity and attention to detail drive you to improve everything you touch
• You have a very good command of English (written and spoken)

OUR OFFER

Tradebyte 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.

Employee shares program

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

2 paid volunteering days a year

Hybrid working model - work where it works for you within Germany or the UK, with occasional office attendance required for moments that matter.

Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

27 days of vacation a year to start for full-time employees

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 with our training offerings and biannual peer-to-peer review

Please note that all applications from this job page must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail. Once reviewed, our recruiters will contact applicants via an official Zalando email address (@zalando.de).

In some cases we also work with a selection of headhunters and agencies to fill specific roles. Please note that neither Zalando nor our recruiting partners will ask for any kind of payment to apply for a job or attend an interview.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process, please take a look at our FAQ page.

Software Engineering

Our Software Engineering teams deploy software extensively, managing a broad set of applications and conducting thousands of deployments per week. The Software Engineering team enables Zalando as Europe’s number one multi-brand, digital platform for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle for our partners and customers. As a Zalando Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a community of thousands of colleagues across Europe.

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey to build the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce. Help us offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 50 million active customers in 25 markets. Or be part of our logistic infrastructure, software or service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. Join our Zalando ecosystem, to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.