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 DescriptionWithin 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 ABOUT YOU 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 ABOUT YOU Backend Applications team builds solutions and delivers features that serve the business needs and enable our ambitious growth plans.
- You can take a business problem, translate it into a technical problem, and work with the team to ensure it is properly designed, planned, and delivered
- Build and provide internal & external RESTful APIs that ensure a fast & frictionless updating of our backend products
- Embrace modern agile software development methodologies and extreme programming practices such as TDD and pair programming
- Constantly challenge and expand your knowledge of reliable software architecture, programming and new technologies
- Plenty of room for your ideas and creations, flat hierarchies, and very short decision paths.
Qualifications
- Hands-on & recent experience with Laravel
- Hands-on experience developing synchronous APIs
- Experience working with message queue system (SQS, RabbitMQ or equivalent)
- Experience working with AWS, TF, MySQL, Redis or equivalent
- Expected to take ownership of what you build for E2E, including automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response
- Self-motivated, responsible, passionate and eager to learn
- Can perform complex technical tasks independently with minimal guidance
- But a multiplier of team efforts, ensuring that the results of team work are as expected and are technically sound
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Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!
A Place Where You Can Be You
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.
Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.
What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.
Skills Required
- Hands-on and recent experience with Laravel
- Experience developing synchronous APIs and RESTful APIs
- Experience with message queue systems (SQS, RabbitMQ or equivalent)
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience with Terraform (TF)
- Experience with MySQL
- Experience with Redis
- Ownership of E2E including automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response
- Self-motivated, responsible, passionate and eager to learn
- Ability to perform complex technical tasks independently with minimal guidance
- Multiplier of team efforts, ensuring team results are technically sound
What We Do
SCAYLE enables brands and retailers to realize their D2C ambition. Easy. Fast. And limitless. With headless commerce technology, international operations, and data-driven marketing. Our commerce engine is proven by the success of ABOUT YOU and allows brands to scale infinitely – empowering them to become market leaders in their industry.
