Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Hamburg
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will build high-performance backend systems and RESTful APIs for campaign management, define software standards, and integrate modern AI tools to optimize development workflows.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Campaign Engine is our loyalty framework hub. Its mission is to enable a completely new self-service campaign management ecosystem for Retail Media Partners, providing them with direct access to ABOUT YOU's unique proprietary loyalty mechanics (Missions & Coupons) to drive customer acquisition and incremental engagement.
- Architect Greenfield Backend Services: Design, develop, and deliver scalable, high-performance core backend systems and RESTful APIs from scratch for the Campaign Engine product layer.
- Establish Engineering Standards: Define clean software architectural blueprints, coding standards, repository layouts, and CI/CD pipelines, initially leveraging a modern PHP 8.2+ and Laravel-based ecosystem.
- Drive Testing and Code Health: Champion excellent engineering practices within the team via automated test frameworks, strict test coverage and systematic code reviews.
- Cross-Functional Technical Stewardship: Partner closely with the Team Lead Product, Frontend Engineers, and central infrastructure teams to evaluate architectural trade-offs and translate commercial objectives into robust code.
- Deploy AI-Augmented Engineering Workflows: Architect, configure, and optimize modern, AI-augmented development setups utilizing tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Gemini.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Modern PHP Ecosystem: Advanced proficiency in modern PHP (8.2+) and modern web frameworks such as Laravel with deep knowledge of object-oriented design patterns.
- Relational Database Architecture: Strong relational database proficiency, including schema engineering, indexing strategies, transaction handling, and query performance tuning.
- Observability & Telemetry Integration: Deep practice instrumenting application telemetry, writing actionable distributed logs, and building metrics monitoring profiles inside platforms like Datadog.
- AI-Augmented Development: Practical skill integrating modern AI tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Gemini) directly into the software development lifecycle to automate and accelerate code iteration loops.
- High Autonomy & Proactive Ownership: Highly self-directed engineer who thrives on setting technical directions, establishing code patterns, and building workflows from a clean slate.
- Pragmatic & Delivery-Oriented: A practical problem solver who values shipping clean, predictable, and functional increments over premature optimization or hyper-abstract engineering.
- Clear Technical Communicator: Capable of translating complex architectural tradeoffs, system limits, and technical complexities into clean business terms for non-technical stakeholders.
Experience
- 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- API Design & Integration Routing: Extensive experience building enterprise-grade, secure RESTful APIs, managing intricate OAuth lifecycles, and implementing robust rate-limiting and defensive validation rules.
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What we offer
- Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!
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About You
As a rapidly growing online fashion retailer in Europe, ABOUT YOU has won multiple awards. As a fashion company and technology company, we work together to make the shopping experience more inspiring and personal for our customers.
Description
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Senior Backend Engineer - Campaign Engine
- Location
- Hamburg
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
