Backend Engineer - Supply Tech (all genders)
ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Backend Engineering role at ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG. Hamburg · full-time · €60,000–€70,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build high-traffic PHP applications, REST APIs and background jobs for purchasing and related business processes
- Shape application architecture with the Lead Engineer and turn redesigned business processes into technical features
- Own your features from first code through production, keeping them healthy, performant and maintainable
- Deploy several times daily through GitLab CI/CD to AWS, then monitor services with Datadog and Sentry
What you bring
- Strong PHP 8 and Laravel skills, plus experience creating end-to-end, integration and unit tests
- You have designed, secured and scaled REST APIs and worked with AWS, Git, Valkey or comparable tools
- You bring hands-on relational database design and performance tuning experience, such as with MySQL 8
- You can work in an English-speaking environment and prioritize clear, efficient, maintainable code
Who this fits
This mid-level backend role suits you if you want ownership of production features and enjoy making technical decisions alongside a Lead Engineer. The position is based in Hamburg with a hybrid setup, and the team works in English.
From the employer
ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.
Our Purchasing Interface Team is the main system for the operational processes of our buying, procurement, private label & fotostudio business teams.
- Build high-traffic web applications with PHP (Laravel)
- Build internal & external RESTful API as well as Background Jobs (peak times: > 1 million jobs per hour)
- Engage in decisions like application architecture, together with the Lead Engineer, and explore new technologies
- Lead the technical conception of features that support a newly designed business process.
- Take full ownership of the features you build, from the initial code commit to ensuring they run smoothly in production. You'll be responsible for their health, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Ship code with confidence multiple times a day using our CI/CD Pipeline (Gitlab) to our hosting platform (AWS Elastic Container Service)
- Monitor applications with industry-standard tools (Datadog, Sentry) through Dashboards & Alerting
- Learn from other developers in a highly skilled team and present your ideas in our regular Tech talks
- Join a pragmatic agile team that values shipping quality code over the full SCRUM ceremony
- Excellent coding skills in PHP 8 (Laravel)
- Experience in designing and implementing E2E, integration & unit tests
- Expertise in designing, securing, and scaling RESTful APIs
- Experience working with AWS, Git, Valkey, or equivalent
- Hand-on Experience with relational database design & performance optimization (i. e. MySQL 8)
- Passionate about writing well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the code base in check
- Ready to work in an English-speaking environment
Nice To Have
- Experience with SQS, ECS Fargate
- Experience with YII 1.1
Your perks at a glance: Visit our benefits page.
Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!
A Place Where You Can Be You
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.
Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.
What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.
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