Fullstack Software Engineer - Logistics Engineering Automation

About the role

Zalando's Tech Logistics "Automation Core" team is looking for a Fullstack Software Engineer to help build a high-performance, stable, auto-scaling software system that connects automated devices and external hardware to the warehouse management system. The team integrates conveyor systems, item and parcel sorters and transport robots, and provides tools and workflows to monitor production services and keep them highly available. The team is based in Erfurt, works in a flexible hybrid model and collaborates with colleagues in Berlin and other European hubs.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in requirements refinement, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment and operational monitoring in an agile environment.
• Build and maintain services that connect physical automation equipment with core warehouse business logic.
• Write clean, testable, well-documented code following team standards, API-first principles and modern engineering practices.
• Use modern developer tooling, including AI coding assistants, to speed up development, test authoring and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Senior Engineers, and take part in code reviews.
• Work fullstack with a strong backend focus (about 80% backend, 20% frontend and internal operator tooling).
• Support operational monitoring and incident handling for owned production services.

Required profile

• Solid hands-on experience with Java and the Spring Boot framework.
• Practical experience building web applications with Vue.js, Node.js and modern JavaScript.
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs in a microservices architecture.
• Practical knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Foundational understanding of event-driven architecture and cloud message queues (e.g. Kafka), or a strong interest in them.
• Basic knowledge and practical use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, modern IDE assistants, LLM-based tools).