Together with our partner, a prominent online fashion & beauty retailer in Europe, we are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer.

This European Retailer fulfils more than 200 million orders every year and the volumes are increasing. Whenever a customer experiences our shop the technology is at the scene and behind the scenes - software makes their systems work. Emerging Propositions teams are responsible for enabling and evolving product offerings in Beauty, Designer and Pre-owned categories. They solve customer problems related to unique customer experiences and assortment properties like high number of makeup shades, distinct presentation of luxury brands.

As a Senior iOS Software Engineer in Emerging Propositions, you will be joining an agile cross functional team that builds solutions for Zalando’s Fashion Store applications (Android and iOS) as well as the website in the domain of content and inspiration. This role provides a unique opportunity to collaborate in a multidisciplinary team of mobile, web, and backend engineers and shape the next chapter in customer experience and we will support you to grow and work with exciting modern technologies.

• You will be part of an agile cross functional team and play a key role in solution design, planning, development, deployment, operating and improving scalable software solutions for the Retailer’s mobile application

• Together with your multidisciplinary team, you contribute to the codebases and you lean on your iOS experience and skill set, write robust, performant and maintainable code aiming at very high quality and clean code

• Take an active role in work towards reducing ambiguity, understanding business requirements and translating them into technical solutions and requirements. 

• Collaborate closely with Product Management and design to refine designs and functional requirements and you create test cases to be verified during development and feature release

• Participate in code reviews, adhere to best practices sharing and developing your expertise together with your team and you use feedback as an opportunity for growth

• Proactively help in the growth of juniors and peers in your team and beyond

• You are an experienced iOS developer who is eager to work with new technologies while trying to challenge yourself and deliver high-quality code

• Deep hands on experience in using Swift, iOS Frameworks & APIs like UIKit, Foundation, Core Data, Core Animation, and others

• Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, JSON, SQLite, and networking libraries like e.g. Alamofire and software design patterns and paradigms

• Understanding and experience with MVC, MVVM, VIPER, and other architectural patterns

• You have made the applications resilient and reliable and you write well structured, readable, and maintainable code that’s covered by unit tests

• You have hands-on experience with profiling, debugging, and optimizing iOS applications for performance and memory usage

• You have several years of experience working in high performance teams and can independently drive technical discussions and facilitate complex decision making processes

• Positive energy and no-job-is-beneath-you attitude and you’re a team player with an attitude of accountability, knowledge-sharing and self direction