Job Description

We are currently looking for skilled & passionate Backend Developers (m/f/d) across Medior, Senior and Lead levels to become part of one of our Tech teams, either working onsite in Hamburg, remotely in the EU or in our Tech Hub in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (planned to open in Spring 2022).

As ABOUT YOU is rapidly growing, we plan to open several Tech Hubs across Europe in Spring 2022 to attract and keep the best Tech talents in the region. Our Tech Department is the heart of ABOUT YOU, driven by the passion to develop the best infrastructure & applications. You will work on high-scalable products on a cloud-based infrastructure and collaborate with developers who constantly challenge themselves to raise the bar of what is “state of the art” technology.

What you will do

• Work on high-scalable products with PHP7 hosted on a cloud-based infrastructure
• Build and provide internal & external RESTful APIs that ensure a fast & frictionless updating of our backend products
• Develop multiple backend platforms ranging from high throughput to maximum faultlessness
• Constantly challenge and expand your knowledge of reliable software architecture, programming and new technologies
• Work with agile processes that are adapted to the team’s and project’s needs
• Exchange your knowledge with other developers and be part of our ABOUT YOU TECH community
• As a Lead Backend Dev:
  • Lead a world-class team of engineers and collaborate with product managers, QA’s and designers to ship new components and features
  • Build complex & high scalable technical solutions in close cooperation with the Tech Lead and the Product Lead as well as the product manager

Who you are

• Very good & MVP-focused coding skills in PHP7 of minimum 3 years
• Practical & recent experience with MVC Frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, Zend or Yii2
• Solid technical understanding of RESTful API’s
• Good background in building scalable distributed products and practical experience with Caching
• Previous experience with handling & querying relational databases (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL)
• Passionate about writing well-structured, efficient and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the code base in check
• Comfortable working in an English-speaking & agile environment
• As a Lead Backend Developer:
  • 5+ years of experience in developing high-scalable software products in PHP7
  • Comfortable with people management topics and have worked in a leading role in a fast-changing environment before

Benefits

• Grow together with one of the fastest-growing eCommerce companies in Europe
• Flexible working times
• 40% discount on our online shop
• Language courses (German & English)
• Free choice of hardware and operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux) also for private usage
• State-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS
• International working environment and English as company language

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU.
We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents. :)