Senior Backend Engineer (maternity cover) (m/f/d)

About Redcare Pharmacy:

As Europe’s No.1 e-pharmacy, Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy, collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision “Until every human has their health”. If you’re seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values, join us and begin your #Redcareer today.

About the role:

As the Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) (Backend / Full Stack) this is a 1-year maternity cover role, you'll be a key player in a cross-functional team, building performant, scalable, and customer-focused web applications used by millions across Europe. You’ll shape features end-to-end - from early discovery and ideation through delivery and rollout.

About the tech stack: TypeScript, ES6, Next.js, React.js, Express.js, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Google Cloud, RabbitMQ, MongoDB

About your tasks:

• Develop core features across our homepage, search, product detail page, and cart - turning complex needs into seamless, personalized, and trustworthy shopping experiences.
• Support the team in developing the new Shop Rendering UI, based on Next.js
• Extend and create new backend services across various domains, that interact with internal and external applications
• Create and consume API endpoints based on defined contracts with colleagues
• Collaborate with RabbitMQ to ensure scalable, asynchronous communication between services
• Work on new features designed for high-performance and scalability
• Embrace an open feedback culture and engage in open communication within the team

About you:

• Understand that seniority is defined by the ability to make a genuine impact, be proactive, and take ownership
• Enjoy designing and building new features from scratch, and you own your code end-to-end, including building, testing, and deployment
• Have experience building services at scale with Node.js and TypeScript and demonstrates proficiency with REST APIs and a solid understanding of HTTP
• Possess a DevOps mindset, including use of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline setup
• You’re comfortable collaborating with non-technical stakeholders, helping align tech and product priorities.  
• You have a team-player first mindset and enjoy working closely with others. You are proactive communicator.

About your benefits:

In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:

• Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge. 
• Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
• Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
• Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• And many more :)

Remote work policy:

Our offices are open, but you are free to work from home, from any location in Germany. It is entirely up to you if you want to pop into the office every now and again, or if you work from home all the time. At the same time, we value relationship between all members of the area and therefore we have regular team and area anchor days on which every team member is asked to come to the office.