Backend PHP Developer

About ABOUT YOU

ABOUT YOU is an ambitious and fast growing e-commerce start-up based in Hamburg. The heart of the work is a fashion-online shop ABOUT YOU that was launched in May 2014. Other brands of the company group include the fashion brand EDITED and the lingerie and beachwear specialist Sister Surprise. During the first year on the market, they achieved a double-digit million turnover and win half a million customers. No other e-commerce company has ever achieved that before. The goal of ABOUT YOU is to sustainably change the e-commerce market and to make fashion shopping on the Internet more inspiring and exciting for a young target group. Today around 230 people work on this ambitious goal with an average age of about 30 years, including experienced editor and fashion experts as well as tech talents. 

Position

ABOUT YOU is looking for a skilled Backend PHP Developer to join one of our Tech Teams at ABOUT YOU. Our Tech Department is the heart of ABOUT YOU, driven by the passion to develop the best infrastructure & applications. You will work on high-scalable products on a cloud-based infrastructure and collaborate with developers who constantly challenge themselves to raise the bar of what is “state of the art” technology.

Leap to the next level in your career and shape the online shopping experience of millions of customers by building the best shop infrastructure.

What you will do

• Work on high-scalable products with PHP7 hosted on a cloud-based infrastructure
• Build and provide internal & external RESTful APIs that ensure a fast & frictionless updating of our products
• Develop multiple platforms ranging from high throughput to maximum faultlessness
• Constantly challenge and expand your knowledge of reliable software architecture, programming and new technologies
• Work with agile processes that are adapted to the team’s and project’s needs
• Exchange your knowledge with other developers and be part of our ABOUT YOU TECH community

Your qualification

• Very good & MVP-focused coding skills in PHP7 of minimum 3 years
• Practical & recent experience with MVC Frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, Zend or Yii2
• Solid technical understanding of RESTful API’s
• Good background in building scalable distributed products and practical experience with Caching
• Previous experience with handling & querying relational databases (e.g. , MariaDB or PostgreSQL)
• Passionate about writing well-structured, efficient and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the code base in check
• Comfortable working in an English-speaking & agile environment