Backend Engineer - Sponsored Content & Products (all genders)
About You SE & Co. KG3 days ago
Hamburg, GermanyMid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable backend services and RESTful APIs in PHP 8.2+ and Laravel for a CPC-bidding marketplace and brand tools.
- Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and identify refactoring opportunities.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, and Senior Tech Leads to define marketplace features and translate AdTech requirements into working software.
- Follow repository structures, coding standards, and CI/CD processes to deliver reliable production updates.
- Monitor system health, resolve backend errors, and maintain fast and stable real-time ad-serving and bidding endpoints.
- Use AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Gemini to accelerate boilerplate development, testing, and problem solving.
Requirements
- A completed degree in computer science, software development, or a comparable field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of professional backend software development experience.
- Strong knowledge of modern PHP 8.2+ and Laravel, object-oriented design, and clean-code principles.
- Practical experience building secure RESTful APIs, implementing authentication and authorization, and configuring request validation and rate limiting.
- Experience with relational databases, efficient SQL queries, basic table-schema design, indexes, and migrations.
- Familiarity with application logging, error tracking, and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
- Experience using modern AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Gemini.
- Strong ownership, independent judgment, pragmatic engineering practices, and clear communication skills.
- AdTech or loyalty-industry experience, including self-service campaign dashboards, ad-delivery systems, budgeting engines, or rewards and voucher systems, is a plus.
Benefits
- The company emphasizes an inclusive, accepting, and fair workplace for people with different backgrounds and perspectives.
- The role is based within ABOUT YOU’s Hamburg and Berlin organizational locations; specific remote or hybrid arrangements are not stated.
- Employees may take part in team lunches, after-work drinks, company events, and informal social activities.
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.