Who we are

We operate Kaufland.de: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Our work is characterised by a dynamic corporate culture, with a start-up mentality and the opportunities offered by a large corporation in the background. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team. Whether as an intern or an executive: We take every idea seriously, because we want to work together in shaping the future of e-commerce!

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focused way: You decide whether you want to work in our office in Cologne // Darmstadt while at the same time having the opportunity to work remotely. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and a maximum of flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day-by-day, our development team of about 190 experts pursues the goal of creating the best-possible customer shopping experience for the Kaufland.de marketplace. We are here to inspire millions of customers, to help them find, purchase and get the things they love. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams, in which product owners, product designers, frontend and backend engineers, data scientists and lean managers join forces. Details regarding the challenges of the respective product areas can be found here:  https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech/.  

Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

  • As a Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) you proactively develop the Kaufland.de Marketplace and internal services further
  • In our cross-functional teams, you regularly work with colleagues from other disciplines to develop good products together
  • You work in a challenging environment and use cutting edge technologies and innovative processes
  • You take part in the product discovery phase to make sure we build the right things fitting to our architecture and find solutions which can be implemented easily
  • With your well-founded experience and skills, you are committed to continuously improve your colleagues’ know-how, methodology and quality, and you lead by example

Your profile – this is what we expect from 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 are an experienced senior engineer used to solving engineering problems with the tools & frameworks that make sense both for the problem domain and the engineering organization. Our tech stack is predominantly PHP, with growing use of Node.js and Go
  • You have a very high capacity for abstraction, analytical thinking and your actions are always based on partnership
  • You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further in order to become a little bit better every day
  • Passion for what you do and a strong interest in current e-commerce trends and developments
  • You have in-depth knowledge of software development methods and principles, coupled with healthy pragmatism
  • You possess a vast experience of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle
  • You possess excellent communication skills and have a very good command of English

What we offer

  • Create your own work-life! We offer you the best possible flexibility in terms of working hours and location 
  • A highly-motivated and qualified team from different fields and numerous nations
  • The future is digital - Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users with a broadly-based technology stack
  • Power meets dynamic - flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet and the power of a big corporate group and offers you an agile and secure working environment at the same time
  • Free choice of hardware – we provide you with the development environment of your choice
  • Personal & team growth: We love to have flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organize company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company.
  • Top conditions at the Urban Sports Club for fitness, team sports, yoga and more

Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!

Technical Skills
PHP
Node.js
Go
Is a Remote Job?
Remote
Employment Type
Full time

This is who we are

We operate Kaufland.de, one of the fastest-growing online marketplaces in Germany with offices in Cologne, Darmstadt and Düsseldorf. We ensure a 100% simple, affordable, secure and...

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