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Company Description

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.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our Frontend Platform Team. Our mission is to provide the core architecture, mono-repository, SDKs and developer experience tooling that power customer-facing pages at Zooplus. By owning the shared Next.js application shell, block-based rendering engine, design system and a suite of battle-tested SDKs, the team enables product teams in the organisation to ship features faster, safer and with a consistent user experience. 

You’ll work side-by-side with product teams, architects and engineers to evolve our architecture and streamline contributions. Our team is distributed in Europe, we all have different nationalies and 25 years of combined Zooplus experience. 

Expect technical challenges, a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to impact millions of pet lovers across Europe every single day. 

What makes working with us special 

• Platform mindset – we treat other teams as our customers and measure success by their velocity and satisfaction. 
• Mono-repo at scale – We work to scale to hundreds of workspaces. 
• Block-based architecture – We are building a rendering engine to power our website pages, slots and blocks with clear ownership, runtime composition and fine-grained observability. 
• Collaborative culture – pair-programming, design docs and regular cross-team work, all in English. 
• High impact – You will work on a high impact – high visibility project. 

Our tech landscape 

• Core stack: React, Next.js (server & client components), TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL 
• Mono-repo tooling: pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets 
• Testing: Jest, Playwright. 
• CI/CD: Jenkins pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes. 
• Observability: Prometheus/Grafana metrics, Sentry, Elasticsearch/Kibana. 
• Cloud: AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, RDS), Terraform 

Your responsibilities 

• Design, build and evolve the application core (Next.js shell, routing, rendering 
• engine) and shared SDKs used by all frontend teams. 
• Contribute to mono-repo workflow improvements: implement guidelines, review cross-package PRs, automate releases and champion code quality. 
• Partner with architects and designers to refine the block-based architecture, design system, scalability strategy and governance model. 
• Coach product-team engineers on best practices in performance, testing and code quality; advocate for standardisation while unblocking delivery. 
• Lead automation efforts by identifying bottlenecks and implementing automations. 
• Contribute across the full delivery life-cycle – discovery, PoCs, code, reviews, infra and post-mortems. 

Qualifications

Must-have qualifications 

• 5+ years of professional development with TypeScript, React & Node.js (or similar). 
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD, test automation and cloud-native deployments (Docker, K8s, AWS). 
• Strong architectural skills: modular design, scalability, performance, API contract definition. 
• Hands-on with production systems; you have worked for years in distributed systems environments. 
• Comfortable in cross-team discussions, implementing standards and mentoring engineers. 
• Excellent verbal and written English. 

Nice-to-have qualifications 

• Experience building developer-platform products or internal frameworks. 
• Experience maintaining a large-scale mono-repository (Nx, Bazel, Turborepo or similar) and design system libraries. 
• Knowledge of experimentation/personalisation tooling (Optimizely, audience targeting). 
• Familiarity with e-commerce performance KPIs (LCP, bounce-rate, conversion). 
• Exposure to server components, edge rendering and advanced caching strategies. 
• Infra-as-code (Terraform/CDK) and AWS. 
• Participation in open-source or inner-source communities. 

Additional Information

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.

#LI-Hybrid

✈️ 28 Annual Vacation Days
🩺 Private Medical Health Insurance
⏰ Hybrid working model (up to 40%Home Office per month)

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