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You will continuously improve our stakeholder’s productivity and developer experience while optimizing the architecture of the API . The product portfolio that you will help getting better every day includes:\nFashion Store API (GraphQL)\n\nNova (Feature Flagging and Experimentations platform)\n\nPR review and support process\n\nQkeep (tool to manage GraphQl queries)\n\nINCLUSIVE BY DESIGN\nAt Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with ourhiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.\nWe want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.\ndo.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy:\nhttps://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy\nWHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)\nDevelop, improve and maintain features that help the FashionStore API being performant, cost-efficient and simple to integrate with\n\nTake ownership for parts of the user experience and guide engineers to adopt our products.\n\nClosely collaborate within the team and with stakeholders to identify potentials to optimize our processes and tools.\n\n\"You build it, you run it\" approach: experience managing services end-to-end, from developing to deploying to monitoring and incident support.\n\n WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF…\nBackend Software Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience in API programming and architecture and resolver implementations\n\nYou know how to connect Frontend request to various Backend services - especially in a microservice environment\n\nStrong experience in Node.js and GraphQL, knowledge in Python and/or Go is nice to have but not a must\n\nExperience with modern deployment tools and continuous integration/delivery processes to deploy new features reliably and quickly.\n\nGood understanding of System Fundamentals (Caching, Security, CI/CD, Kubernetes)\n\nCommitment to do On-call ~once every 2 month\n\nOUR OFFER\nZalando provides a range of benefits, here's an overview of what you can expect. 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