
Zalando Payments Dortmund engineering
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01 What does the onboarding look like?
02 What do you like most about working at Zalando Payments?
03 must the candidate know all the requirements? if not, is there any training or is this a candidate's job ?
04 What has been the most challenging projects you have been working on from a technical perspective until now?
05 Is finance/banking experience a must or an advantage?
06 What is the main factor or ability that the candidate should have to be an employee in Zalando?
07 which technologies are used?
08 Do you have any tips for the selection process? How long does it usually last?
09 Do you have fixed teams in IT or are teams established based on projects?
10 What do you look first in a Software engineer? Problem solving skills, Control of specific programming language or Domain knowledge
11 Are there requirements for a backend developer? And how much experience is required for a java developer?
12 Can you give us some more info on the typical career path in the company?
13 How is the work culture at Zalando ? Is it hierarchical or flat?
14 how the technical interview looks like ?
15 Would you please explain how do you get and process a new requirement and assign it to different teammates?
16 Can you share with us the top three priorities of Zalando? From the business or IT perspective?
17 Conclusion
Become part of Zalando Payments (ZPS) and start a career within “The starting point for fashion”.
The Payment Processing department in Dortmund is the owner of some strategic products within Zalando Payments and Zalando itself. *Buy Now Pay Later* is a product that aims at bringing the offline shopping experience to online customers so that articles can be tested at home first before customers have to pay for the goods. Paying into the Buy Now Pay Later product but equally important for Zalando’s checkouts is the *integration of payment methods*. It’s another important product that is developed and maintained by the teams in Dortmund that aims to offering the most desirable payment methods to our customers and the team adds new payment methods on a constant basis.
We invite you to learn more about the structure of Zalando Payments, our various teams and the unique technical challenges we solve. Join us, meet tech professionals behind our ambitious projects, and get insight into our work.
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We are an organisation of almost 300 professionals located mainly in Berlin and Dortmund. We process over 180 million transactions per year across 20 countries and support 23 different payment options for the convenience of our users.
The Technology organisation at Zalando Payments is responsible for building and operating our products and services in a secure and compliant way.
The technology organisation is made up of engineers, applied scientists, information security consultants and project & portfolio managers. The teams work closely with Product, AI & Data and Convenience job families to deliver products, projects and solutions.
The Team provides a full payments solution to the Zalando Group ranging from risk assessment and fraud screening, over offering payment methods in the checkout and processing, up to collection and reconciliation of funds. We are on a sure path to becoming the preferred payment solution for the fashion world and we are always on the lookout for experts in payment products or technology. If you are excited to help us extend our services further in the market, join us for the ride!

