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Welcome to our visionary innovation hub, where innovation drives our every endeavor.

Through advanced technologies and groundbreaking practices, we craft exceptional digital products that redefine industries and empower businesses to thrive. Our team of brilliant minds possesses an unending passion for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Join us on this transformative journey as we shape the future, unlocking unlimited possibilities and propelling your business to new heights of success.

Who we are

ZIMLABS is an innovation hub within ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. Our program consists of lean teams that develop ZIM’s smart digital products.

What we are doing

We collaborate and solve problems with ideas that result in innovative solutions, game changer products, and with a short time to market.

How we do it

Utilizing the eXtreme programming methodology, including pair programming and TDD, we develop exactly what our customers need. Our customers are the center of our deliveries. We strive to deliver clear added value to our customers in everything we do. Using cutting edge technologies and having top talented engineers enables us to introduce breakthrough solutions in a short time.

Our Products

Hive

Optimizes the booking process by selecting the most profitable cargo, which helps to maximize vessel yield, utilization, and customer service levels. Additionally, Hive can potentially improve efficiency and reduce costs by streamlining the booking process and enabling more efficient use of resources.

Scheduling

The new vessel schedule management system enables ZIM in planning, simulating, maintaining, and sharing vessel schedules with increased availability, accuracy and visibility, while streamlining and automating processes. The system also allows ZIM to comply with global schedule sharing standards (DCSA).

Route Catalog

‘Waze’ is arriving to the shipping industry. ZIM’s smart routing system offers alternative “Waze” to reach your destination. It enables us to choose the best option in Real time, maximizing our decision-making, and enhancing profitability.

Balancing

The Balancing system improves logistics operations efficiency and management capabilities by implementing a new logistics management tool. This includes container stock forecast, global planning optimization, approval workflow and cost driven decision making.

Career in ZIMLABS

ZIMLABS is constantly growing; we always need talented engineers to help us reach new highs. So, if you are passionate about coding in various languages at the same time, like pair programming, and curious about learning new domains – read more about our vacancies.

Product-UX Analyst

Looking for a Research and Design opportunity to utilize your problem-solving and design skills? You'll work with a diverse group of experts, creating complex data-driven systems. Your creativity, analytical thinking, and agile mindset will be crucial for our success. Design critical products, report to executives, and make a significant impact!

Product-UX Analyst

This role is responsible for researching, defining problems and designing useful (and usable) systems, which assist our internal expert users in performing very complex data-driven tasks.
This is a key leadership role in our agile team, a heterogenic group of developers, analysts, product managers and stakeholders. It requires a unique mix of creativity, analytical thinking, communication skills, and agile mindset.
The products we design are key to ZIM’s business strategy and are regularly reported directly to ZIM’s C-level.

Responsibilities

Lead research through user interviews, stakeholder workshops, contextual observations, artifact analysis and other methods of collecting needs and requirements. Maintain personal relationships with users and stakeholders to stay informed.
Discover, organize, and clarify business needs. Understand the domain, business processes, user tasks, existing flows and systems to anticipate requirements, uncover areas for improvement and get immersed in complex domains to understand deep currents.
Help prioritize initiatives and build a product roadmap
Design product solutions which address these requirements, while considering an appropriate level of complexity for the scope and priority
Simplify complex content and ideas into functional, usable interfaces
Communicate design concepts and negotiate with stakeholders and developers to arrive at a design that supports both the business and a strong user experience
Generate user stories, wireframes, diagrams, and flows which capture the design in just enough detail to successfully serve the development team
Support and participate in the development process of both front-end or back-end functionality, during development and testing
Continuously test and analyze user performance throughout the development cycle
Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
Serve as a liaison between the business, the users, the developers and the product.

Requirements

An ability to listen. Actively, honestly, empathically.
Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills. The ability to conceptualize, generalize, and see patterns, think in systems. Have experience applying root-cause analysis. Be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions independently.
An ability to communicate. Work with multiple stakeholders and team members, and need to be able to convey needs, requirements, and solutions to different departments and skill sets.
10+ combined years of UX/UI/HF Design, Research, Product Management, containing at least one of the below:
- 5+ years of experience in leading user experience, human factors, product management.
- 3+ years in business analysis, product management, systems engineering or other related fields

Good understanding of user centered design, information architecture, and human factors.

People skills, with the ability to engage diplomatically with users, stakeholders and team to communicate changes, probe for answers, persuade and be persuaded.
Be able to understand priorities and shape solutions accordingly

Ability to manage multiple assignments and implement projects

A bachelor’s degree in design, engineering, business or related fields

Bonus: experience working with multi-functional
Bonus: experience in Agile Methodologies

Bonus: experience leading and supporting successful projects.

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XP Full Stack Java Developer

Are you a seasoned full-stack developer with a passion for innovation and a knack for owning the entire development cycle? Join our team as a Hands-On Full Stack Developer! Take charge of designing and developing cutting-edge applications while working in XP with remote pair programming. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!

XP Full Stack Java Developer

Place

Remote

Role description

Hand-On full stack development of innovative applications.
Owning the entire development cycle, including design, architecture, development, and DevOps.
Working in XP with Remote pairing.

Role requirements

BSc in Software Engineering or BS degree in Computer Science.
5+ years of experience in the following technologies: Java, Spring (must have)
Experience with Functional Programming and Java Streams.
4+ years of experience in FE, mainly React (must have), and other modern java script Framework/libraries.
Experience with developing a reactive UI (Reactive JS).
2+ years of experience in TDD/BDD development in the following frameworks: Junit, Jasmin, Mockito, Protractor/Selenium
2+ years of experience in micro-services-based architecture and tools (Spring Boot/Cloud)
Experience in DevOps development and Jenkins.
Experience in development in Kotlin – an advantage.
Experience in designing, developing, and deploying cloud/hybrid-based solutions.
Experience in developing and deploying in Container based environments (Kubernetes, Cloud foundry).
Familiarity with the following design concepts: micro-services, service discovery, circuit breaker.
Self-starter with the ability to appropriately priorities and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment.
Versatility and capability to switch easily between different tasks and technologies.
Experience in assessing a broad range of information solutions and products.
Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
Good English – verbal and written.

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XP Tech Lead

Looking for a unique opportunity to lead a development team while still contributing as a hands-on full-stack developer? Join us for a unique opportunity! Lead the team, contribute technically, work with remote pairing, and make an impact worldwide. Grow your skills in an agile environment. Join us now!

XP Tech Lead

Place

Hybrid, Remote

Role description

Leading development team for both technical and resources aspects.
Continue to contribute as hands on full stack developer (70%)
Owning the entire development cycle, including design, architecture, development, and DevOps.
Working in XP methodology with Remote pairing.
Programming in pair programming practice
Making sure the development progress is in a good working pace
Making sure the developers always have stories in ToDo
Acting as focal point for developer’s tech problems
Assign the pairs and their stories on a daily basis
Conducting the standups
DEV lead in the IPM ceremony (negotiate the voting if needed)
Mentoring and enablement of juniors/Freshmen
Acting as focal point in front of the business and management
Accountability for the coding standards implementation (TDD, DDD, design patterns, etc.)
Architecture guidance and enforcement
Mitigate pull request failures due to WhiteSource verifications

Role requirements

BSc in Software Engineering or BS degree in Computer Science.
4+ years of experience in development team leadership (must)
6+ years of experience in the following technologies: Java, Spring (must)
Experience with Functional Programming and Java Streams.
5+ years of experience in FE development with modern java script Framework/libraries (practical experience with React is a must).
Experience with developing a reactive UI (Reactive JS).
2+ years of experience in TDD/BDD development in the following frameworks: Junit, Jasmin, Mockito, Protractor/Selenium
2+ years of experience in micro-services-based architecture and tools (Spring Boot/Cloud)
Experience in DevOps development and Jenkins.
Experience in development in Kotlin – big advantage.
Experience in designing, developing, and deploying cloud/hybrid-based solutions.
Experience in developing and deploying in Container based environments (Kubernetes, Cloud foundry).
Familiarity with the following design concepts: micro-services, service discovery, circuit breaker.
Self-starter with the ability to appropriately priorities and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment.
Versatility and capability to switch easily between different tasks and technologies.
Experience in assessing a broad range of information solutions and products.
Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
Excellent English – verbal and written.

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Partner

Aman Group

Aman is one of the 10 leading IT companies in Israel with subsidiaries in the US and Europe
We’re a veteran and innovative company, offering solutions for a variety of challenges.
Our understanding, attention and technology help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their customers and stakeholders.
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