Backend Engineer - Supply Tech (all genders)
About You SE & Co. KG4 months ago
Hamburg, GermanyMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build high-traffic web applications using PHP and Laravel.
- Design and implement internal and external RESTful APIs and background jobs handling peak volumes of more than one million jobs per hour.
- Contribute to application architecture decisions and investigate new technologies with the Lead Engineer.
- Lead the technical design of features supporting redesigned business processes.
- Own developed features from the first code commit through reliable production operation.
- Ensure application stability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Deploy code several times per day through the GitLab CI/CD pipeline to AWS Elastic Container Service.
- Monitor applications using dashboards and alerting with Datadog and Sentry.
- Share knowledge and present ideas in regular tech talks.
Requirements
- Excellent programming skills in PHP 8 and Laravel.
- Experience designing and implementing end-to-end, integration, and unit tests.
- Expertise in designing, securing, and scaling RESTful APIs.
- Experience with AWS, Git, and Valkey or a similar technology.
- Practical experience with relational database design and performance optimization, such as MySQL 8.
- Commitment to writing structured, efficient, and maintainable code while actively maintaining codebase quality.
- Willingness to work in an English-speaking environment.
- Experience with SQS and ECS Fargate is a plus.
- Experience with Yii 1.1 is a plus.
Benefits
- Inclusive workplace focused on acceptance, inclusion, and fair treatment.
- Pragmatic environment with flat hierarchies, direct communication, and short decision-making paths.
- Regular team lunches, after-work drinks, company events, and informal social opportunities.
- Work in a highly qualified, agile team that values quality code and practical delivery.
About About You SE & Co. KG
ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG operates an online fashion marketplace for European consumers and licenses commerce technology to brands via its SCAYLE platform. The group sells apparel and lifestyle products through its mobile app and aboutyou.com, and offers a cloud-based enterprise shop system under a license model to retailers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hamburg, it is a publicly listed company.