Staff Full-Stack Engineer (all genders)

Permanent Contract, Full- or Part-Time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf

Who we are

We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest-growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.

We love flexibility!We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work remotely (within Germany), meaning you have the best of both worlds. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day by day, our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here:https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech-en/.

We are seeking an experienced Engineer (all genders) to join our Tech & Product Area Explore & Discover in our Shopping Experience Division and play a pivotal role in advancing our marketplace further. Explore & Discover is our most B2C focussed area and therefore, directly affects and relates to our customers having the best shopping experience possible!

Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

• As aStaffFull-StackEngineer (allgenders) inourteam,youproactivelydeveloptheKaufland Marketplaceand internalservicesfurther
• Youconnectustotherapidlygrowingcustomerbase.CollaboratingcloselywithourUX/UIexperts,youwill design andimplementsolutionsthatdeliveranexceptionalshoppingexperience.
• You continuouslyoptimizeandmaintainexisting frontend applicationsregardingperformance, speed, usability, minimizing load times and maximizing interactivity
• Youproactivelycontributeyourownsuggestions,solutions, andtechnologiestothedevelopmentprocess
• Youworkonhighlyscalableand performant SSR Vue 3frontendsservingpageswithhightraffic
• Based on your well-founded experience and skills, you are committed to continuously improving your colleagues’know-how,methodology, and quality, and you lead by example

Your profile – this is what we expect from you

• You have extensive experience as an Engineer and are used to solving different engineering problems with the tools and frameworks that make sense both for the problem domain and the engineering organization
• You have profound knowledge of our frontend tech stack, which is predominantly TypeScript and Vue.js, or you are experienced and accomplished with other common frameworks
• Familiarity with backend application development either in Node.js, PHP or other languages is a must
• You are knowledgeable about testing, debugging, monitoring, and deployment techniques for web applications
• You have experience with building responsive web applications and using different API paradigms
• Ideally, you have experience running efficient experiments and validating ideas using A/B Tests in high-iteration cycles
• You work proactively, take responsibility, and challenge processes
• You have excellent communication skills and enjoy working in an international, English-speaking team
• You have in-depth knowledge of software development methods and principles that translate into writing code that is easy to understand and maintain
• You are committed to learning and adapting to new technologies quickly, besides training opportunities provided by the company
• You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further to become a little bit better every day
• You know how and when to document technical specifications and decisions that affect your team or other teams in your area
• You have solid understanding of infrastructure concepts

What we offer

• Create your own work-life balance: Work remotely (within Germany) or at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, and Düsseldorf!
• Diversity and variety: An international environment with talents from over 65 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives
• Do you want to move to Germany? No problem – we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
• Power meets dynamic: Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group, providing you with an agile and secure working environment
• Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it's up to you
• We are team players: Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings, such as our digital onboarding program, our all-hands meetings, and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being:We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• Boostyourgrowth:Benefitfromouronlinelanguagelearningoffers,ourvariousin-housetrainingoffersaswellasourautomated360-degreefeedbacktoboostyourpersonal and professionalgrowth
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
• ‘Deutschlandticket’: We subsidize your train season ticket for more mobility
• Urban Sports Club: Get top deals for fitness, team sports, yoga and more
• Personal & team growth: We love flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organise company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company

Check out ourPrinciples & ourblog for even more insights into our company culture!

Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) – because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity. Read more here!