Backend PHP Developer

About ABOUT YOU

ABOUT YOU is one of the largest online retailers for fashion and lifestyle in Europe and the leading provider of a personalized shopping experience on smartphones, with over 13 million active customers. In the award-winning ABOUT YOU app and on aboutyou.com, customers across 26 European markets can find inspiration and a range of around 750,000 items from nearly 4,000 brands.

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