About The Position
The Senior Backend Engineer will join Team Purchase Experience within Thomann.io’s Tech & Data team. The cross-functional team owns and improves the checkout experience and post-purchase processes, including the checkout funnel, payment solutions, shipping scenarios, and customer self-service capabilities. The team collaborates with other teams and departments and works in a customer-oriented, data-driven way. The role can be fully remote within Germany or based onsite in the Berlin or Erlangen offices. The engineer will improve the customer journey across the order lifecycle, integrate and optimize payment methods for international markets, solve complex shipping and logistics requirements, and increase observability of mission-critical applications. The role also involves building and maintaining internal APIs, integrating external APIs, owning business-impacting features, and addressing technical debt. The backend uses PHP 8.4, with the team taking responsibility for its framework and following established standards such as PSR. The broader stack includes React and TypeScript on the client side, Tailwind for styling, and MySQL and Memcached for data.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of current work experience as a Software Engineer.
- Deep understanding of PHP and common frameworks such as Symfony.
- Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, common design patterns, and complex database structures.
- Experience navigating and improving complex legacy codebases while accounting for business requirements and restrictions.
- Experience using Git and Composer to manage code and dependencies.
- Commitment to code quality, supported by automated tests.
- Willingness to participate in code reviews as a means of improving and sharing knowledge.
- Ability to work in English, the language used for daily work.
Nice To Haves
- German language skills; the employer will support English speakers who are willing to learn German.
- Experience with PHP 8.4, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, MySQL, and Memcached.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally to refine the customer journey across the order lifecycle.
- Integrate and optimize local payment methods for international markets.
- Address complex shipping logic and logistics scenarios.
- Improve observability of mission-critical applications to identify and fix issues proactively.
- Build and maintain internal APIs and integrate external APIs with the Thomann ecosystem and beyond.
- Own features that directly affect business outcomes.
- Address technical debt and contribute to architectural improvements.
- Collaborate with the cross-functional team and other teams and departments.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and location, with the option to work fully remotely or go into an office.
- 13th salary in November.
- Further training opportunities and clear career development paths.
- Thomann.de employee discount.
- Personal work equipment according to the employee’s preferences and role.
- Regular team events.
- English or German language courses.
- One-to-one sessions with an external coach for professional development.
- Urban Sports Club discount.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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