Senior Full-Stack Engineer (all genders)

  • Cologne
  • // Remote

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/.

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

We are seeking an experienced Engineer (all genders) to join our Tech & Product Area Explore & Discover in our Shopping Experience Division and play a pivotal role in advancing our marketplace further. Explore & Discover is our most B2C focussed area and therefore, directly affects and relates to our customers having the best shopping experience possible!

Your tasks include

  • As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer (all genders) in our team, you proactively develop the Kaufland Marketplace and internal services further
  • You connect us to the rapidly growing customer base. Collaborating closely with our UX/UI experts, you will design and implement solutions that deliver an exceptional shopping experience.
  • You continuously optimize and maintain existing frontend applications regarding performance, speed, usability, minimizing load times and maximizing interactivity
  • You proactively contribute your own suggestions, solutions, and technologies to the development process
  • You work on highly scalable and performant SSR Vue 3 frontends serving pages with high traffic
  • Based on your well-founded experience and skills, you are committed to continuously improving your colleagues' know-how, methodology, and quality, and you lead by example

What you bring with you

  • You have extensive experience as an Engineer and are used to solving different engineering problems with the tools and frameworks that make sense both for the problem domain and the engineering organisation
  • You have profound knowledge of our frontend tech stack, which is predominantly TypeScript and Vue.js, or you are experienced and accomplished with other common frameworks
  • Familiarity with backend application development either in Node.js, PHP or other languages is a must
  • You are knowledgeable about testing, debugging, monitoring, and deployment techniques for web applications
  • You have experience with building responsive web applications and using different API paradigms
  • Ideally, you have experience running efficient experiments and validating ideas using A/B Tests in high-iteration cycles
  • You work proactively, take responsibility, and challenge processes
  • You have excellent communication skills, are fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment
  • You have in-depth knowledge of software development methods and principles that translate into writing code that is easy to understand and maintain
  • You are committed to learning and adapting to new technologies quickly, besides training opportunities provided by the company
  • You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further to become a little bit better every day
  • You know how and when to document technical specifications and decisions that affect your team or other teams in your area
  • You have solid understanding of infrastructure concepts

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