Senior Backend Engineer Storefront - Thomann.io

Thomann.io is forging its digital path forward in the ever-growing eCommerce landscape. As new challenges and opportunities arise on a daily basis, we are searching for new, energetic individuals to join our Storefront team responsible for supporting our customers by focusing on user engagement and conversion.

Primary responsibilities involve developing and maintaining customer-facing features and components across Content Management, Advertising and Customer Relations. Additionally, promotional product pages, marketing features and SEO initiatives will fall under the ownership of our team.

To expand our team, we are seeking another Senior Backend Engineer (f/x/m) proficient in PHP and Backend technologies.

We work remote, distributed, together: Whether fully remote within Germany or on-site in our offices in Berlin & Erlangen - always as a team, always customer-oriented and data-driven.

You can find our techstack here: Insights.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

We are constantly working on improving our customers’ satisfaction through landing pages, specialized tools for accessing our assortment, helpful content and guides, as well as easily reachable contact points to our customer service.

You’ll drive pivotal projects from development to production launch, including landing pages enhancements and expansion of marketing campaign features.

Implementation and maintenance of new and existing Product features.

We conduct thorough automated unit and integration tests to maintain high-quality standards, extended with manual testing as well. Quality assurance is a top priority for us.

You’ll help propel the team forward, leading technical solution planning and ensuring project goals are met within expected timelines

You’ll engage and collaborate with stakeholders and other engineering teams on business-critical projects and features

What you should bring to the table

At least 5 years of current work experience as a Backend Engineer working with PHP

Proficiency in OOP concepts, common design patterns, and complex database structures

Fluency in testing frameworks such as PHPUnit

Experience with common PHP frameworks such as Symfony is advantageous

Experience in managing code and dependencies with Git & composer

Hands-on experience with React is a plus, but not required

Our tech stack

Shop-Backend: We are on PHP 8.4. We take full responsibility for our framework and adhere to established standards (e.g. PSR) during development.

Shop-Frontend: We use React & Typescript on the client side while leveraging Tailwind for styling and design.

MySQL & Memcached provide our customers with reliable and fast data.

What we have to offer

Flexible working hours and location, with the option to go into the office (fully-remote within Germany possible)

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