Teamlead Engineering – Supply Tech (all genders)

ABOUT YOU; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ABOUT YOU in Hamburg and Berlin is seeking a Backend Architect within the Supply Tech Unit to own core backend applications and establish a scalable, performant architecture across our retail platforms.

You will mentor Backend Engineers, guide complex modernization projects, and collaborate with product stakeholders to balance business features with technical excellence, data quality, and observability.

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record designing scalable architectures (from scratch or migration).
• Experience with high-volume data pipelines and modern messaging systems (SQS, RabbitMQ).
• Advocate for clean code, standardized patterns, and maintainable legacy transitions.

Aufgaben

• Own core backend applications and define a scalable, performant architecture.
• Guide the team through large-scale modernization and incremental steps.
• Partner with Product Lead to balance features with technical debt reduction and standardization.

Kenntnisse

Scalable architectures

Data pipelines

Messaging systems

Code quality standards

Project planning under pressure

Logging and observability

Mentoring engineers

Hiring and onboarding

Tools

SQS

RabbitMQ

Jobbeschreibung

Company Description

ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together – over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.

Job Description

Within our Supply Tech Unit, the Backend Applications team is responsible for the implementation of efficient and seamless backend system solutions to handle our retail business across all our ABOUT YOU shops in all countries we operate in. The Backend Application integrates external partners (merchants) and is our quality gate for their data, covering diverse data transformation and enrichment processes.

With a great sense for business and deep knowledge of the retail Backend Systems, the team builds solutions and delivers features that serve the business needs and enable our ambitious growth plans.

• Take full ownership of our core backend applications, defining and communicating a “north star” for a scalable, performant architecture capable of handling complex business logic.
• Guide the team through complex technical challenges, like rewriting a large-scale, custom-built middleware, by breaking projects down into incremental, manageable steps.
• Partner with the Product Lead to balance the roadmap between mission-critical business features and technical goals such as reducing technical debt and moving toward standardized technologies.
• Challenge business requirements and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure both technical sustainability and commercial value are addressed.
• Mentor and coach Backend Engineers to simplify system complexity while growing their skills and advancing their careers.
• Lead the hiring and onboarding of engineering talent capable of navigating legacy-to-modern transitions.
• Serve as the primary technical contact for the unit, ensuring continuous alignment on shared backend architecture, API schemas, and integration contracts.
• Research and propose modern technologies—particularly in message queuing, data normalization, and observability.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of designing and building modern, scalable architectures, either from scratch or in a legacy system migration.
• Deep experience with high-volume data pipelines, normalization, and modern messaging/queuing systems (e.g., SQS, RabbitMQ).
• Strong advocate for industry standards and clean code, with experience transitioning complex or legacy setups into maintainable, standardized patterns.
• Ability to manage complex project timelines and backlogs within high-pressure, fast-paced e-commerce environments.
• Expert mindset regarding logging, tracing, and monitoring to improve system visibility and reduce issue resolution times.
• Passionate about people development, mentoring, and fostering a culture where engineers thrive.