Engineering Manager- Network Behavior in Dortmund bei Zalando

The Role and The Team

One of the main drivers for conversion in online retail is the delivery promise, informing fashion customers about when they can expect their shipment to arrive. Our team owns the predictions of processing times for all the paths in the complex fulfillment network on which this delivery promise is based. Improving the precision of these predictions has a huge impact on customer satisfaction, allows better fulfillment planning, and enables the business to make better-informed tradeoff decisions.

The Network Behavior team is composed of software engineers and applied scientists. Applied scientists design, train, extend, and continuously improve prediction models based on features extracted from diverse datasets produced by high-throughput systems, while software engineers are responsible for building best in class services and infrastructure for experimentation and