Backend Developer (m/f/d)

We are hiring a (Senior) Backend PHP Developer for our client, an international e-commerce group with more than 45 million monthly active users headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Join our client´s MPayment team in the Checkout unit. The MPayment team is responsible for integrating various PSPs into the ecosystem and is part of the larger Checkout unit that oversees the order placement and processing steps.

Our client offers online merchants an in-house developed eCommerce infrastructure as a licensed product. Their primary responsibility is to provide an excellent Checkout-as-a-Service experience to over 200 online stores in European markets, with expansion plans in the UK and North America.

• Translate business problems into technical solutions, ensuring proper design, planning, and delivery.
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop a scalable software architecture for our client´s API written in PHP.
• Embrace modern agile methodologies and extreme programming practices like TDD and pair programming.
• Use the right tools for the right tasks without being dogmatic about it
• Innovate with plenty of room for ideas within a flat hierarchy and short decision paths.
• Act as a multiplier of team efforts, ensuring technically sound and expected results from teamwork.

• Hands-on experience with Laravel or Symfony.
• Experience in developing synchronous APIs (asynchronous experience is a plus).
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, MySQL, Redis, or equivalent technologies.
• Ownership of your work from end-to-end, 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.

Nice to have

• Experience in high volume, high load environments.
• Experience working with multiple downstream and upstream dependencies.
• Experience with PSP integration.
• Experience in designing and testing complex integrations.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS solutions.