(Senior) Backend Engineer (all genders) - PHP & Golang

  • Cologne
  • // Remote

Job description

Who we are
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 remotely (within Germany) and choose the best of both. 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/.

What you can expect from us

  • Create your own work-life balance: You have the flexibility to choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or our co-working space in Berlin!
  • Do you want to move to Germany? No problem - we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start. 
    Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: Get top deals for fitness, swimming, yoga and more
  • Mental Well-Being: We support you on your well-being journey with special offerings such as Instahelp, the digital platform for online psychological counselling
  • Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of holiday per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical once you have been part of the team for a certain period!
  • Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Buy Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances!
    'Deutschlandticket': We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility
  • Corporate Benefits: We offer you attractive discounts with top brands
    Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it's up to you
  • Boost your growth: Benefit from our online language learning programmes, diverse in-house training, and our automated 360-degree feedback. We cover the costs for relevant conferences, training opportunities, and approved team workshops to strengthen personal interactions
  • This is who we are: Our dynamic culture combines flat hierarchies, a start-up mentality, an international team of over 65 nationalities, and the strength of the Schwarz Group to provide you an agile and secure working environment.
  • We are team players: From day one, you will connect not only with your team but also with others through our digital onboarding journey, the buddy programme, and regular team and company events, all-hands meetings, powerful mornings, and much more!
  • Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!

Your tasks include

  • 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 and other engineers, 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 guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth

What you bring with 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 and Golang, which demonstrates your practical knowledge in real-world scenarios
  • Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, databases, and microservices architecture and familiarity with containerisation 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

About the company

We at Kaufland e-commerce are an independent organisation within Schwarz Digits. Tech Company and for the operation and further development of the international Online marketplaces of Kaufland.
Our company consists of over 850 talents from more than 60 nations. We bring this diversity of perspectives and expertise together in interdisciplinary teams to find the best solutions in various projects.

We have a dynamic corporate culture characterised by flat hierarchies, strong team spirit and an open culture of learning and making mistakes. Our Company Principles, which we actively live by and integrate into various processes from onboarding onwards, are an elementary component of our culture - you can find out more about the Principles here here!

Flexibility is our greatest success factor - be it in our processes, in everyday working life or in the place of work. You can work in our offices in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf or remote within Germany work.

Our benefits

  • Promotion opportunities
  • Vocational training
  • Company pension scheme
  • Fitness programme
  • Flexible working hours
  • Home office
  • Public transport ticket / subsidy
  • Team building
  • Further training