Full-Time Senior Backend Engineer

Employment detailsPermanent Contract, Full-or Part-Time, Remote or Cologne / Düsseldorf / Darmstadt

Who we areWe operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest-growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team. We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work up to 100% remotely (within Germany). We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance. Day by day, our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech-en/.

TasksYour tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

• Developing cutting-edge technology and designing scalable and robust backend solutions for our Kaufland Marketplaces is a part of your daily work
• You take ownership of end-to-end feature development, from designing and coding to testing, deployment, and monitoring in production environments
• You work closely together with different stakeholders in our cross-functional teams, communicating effectively to achieve a common goal
• You contribute to the evolution of our development processes and methodologies, exploring new tools and technologies that can enhance our engineering practices
• You are writing clean, maintainable, and high-performance code while adhering to best practices
• In pair programming sessions, you mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth

ProfileYour profile – this is what we expect from you

• You have an educational level that corresponds to completed university studies in (business) information technology, (business) engineering, mathematics, or physics, or you have comparable practical experience
• You have extensive experience in backend development, with a comprehensive and profound experience in PHP, that demonstrates your practical knowledge in real-world scenarios
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, databases, and microservices architecture and familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further in order to become a little bit better every day
• You have excellent communication skills, are willing to embrace our company culture and values, and enjoy working in an international, English-speaking team

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