Backend Engineer - Supply Tech (all genders)

About You - Collins GmbH & Co. KG; Hamburg; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

About You - Collins GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg is looking for a skilled engineer to join the Purchasing Interface Team. You will build high-traffic web applications and lead the technical conception of features to support innovative business processes.

The ideal candidate must have experience in PHP development, RESTful APIs, and CI/CD practices. A strong focus on code ownership and performance optimization is essential. Join a collaborative team that values quality delivery and agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-traffic web applications.
• Familiarity with application architecture and technology exploration.
• Strong ownership mentality for code quality and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Build high-traffic web applications with PHP (Laravel).
• Lead technical conception of new features for business processes.
• Monitor applications using industry-standard tools.

Skills

PHP (Laravel)

RESTful API

CI/CD Pipeline

AWS

Agile methodologies

Tools

Gitlab

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

Our Purchasing Interface Team is the main system for the operational processes of our buying, procurement, private label & fotostudio business teams.

• Build high-traffic web applications with PHP (Laravel)
• Build internal & external RESTful API as well as Background Jobs (peak times: > 1 million jobs per hour)
• Engage in decisions like application architecture, together with the Lead Engineer, and explore new technologies
• Lead the technical conception of features that support a newly designed business process.
• Take full ownership of the features you build, from the initial code commit to ensuring they run smoothly in production. You'll be responsible for their health, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Ship code with confidence multiple times a day using our CI/CD Pipeline (Gitlab) to our hosting platform (AWS Elastic Container Service)
• Monitor applications with industry-standard tools (Datadog, Sentry) through Dashboards & Alerting
• Learn from other developers in a highly skilled team and present your ideas in our regular Tech talks
• Join a pragmatic agile team that values shipping quality code over the full SCRUM ceremony