Senior Backend Engineer (all genders)

Job Description

We 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/.

Your 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

Your 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

What we offer

• Create your own work-life balance: Work remotely or at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, and Düsseldorf!
• Diversity and variety: An international environment with talents from over 55 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives
• Do you want to move to Germany? No problem – we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
• Power meets dynamic: Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group, providing you with an agile and secure working environment
• Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it’s up to you
• We are team players: Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings, such as our digital onboarding program, our all-hands meetings, and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
• ‘Deutschlandticket’: We subsidize your train season ticket for more mobility
• Urban Sports Club: Get top deals for fitness, team sports, yoga and more
• Personal & team growth: We love flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organise company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company