Senior Web Backend Developer

As a Web Backend Developer, you will implement the backbone of digital products and their functionality. You will be responsible for bringing digital ideas to life.

You are doing this with us:

• Planning technical solutions for individual features and whole sites for customers
• Extending existing platforms and building new corporate websites and e-commerce sites
• Coming up with solid solutions and sound architectures
• Coordinating task and project statuses directly with customers, also in agile sprints
• Reviewing change proposals of others and giving constructive feedback
• Analyzing and optimizing the backend performance
• Developing integrations with web services, enrichment services like Elasticsearch and marketing automation tools like newsletters and CRMs
• Developing custom data imports, exports, and data migrations
• Developing data providers for component libraries in the frontend
• Developing automated tests and integrations with monitoring systems
• Contributing fixes and features to third-party extension vendors and the CMS core
• Sharing your knowledge and train team members as well as other disciplines and customers
• Moderating and mediate discussion arguments, taking business and technology factors into account
• Reviewing third-party sites as part of audits for our customers You have valuable experience with:
• Extensible CMS backends based on Statamic, Craft CMS, WordPress
• Programming PHP (OOP and procedural) and the Twig templating engine
• E-Commerce platforms like WooCommerce, Craft Commerce, and others
• Creating RESTful APIs and GraphQL services for decoupled frontends and integrating with third-party web services
• Developing automated deployments and automated tests
• Developing new plugins and themes (ideally published publicly like our extensions on GitHub)
• HTTP caching, HTTP headers and reverse proxy caches like Varnish and Nginx Cache
• Best practices and writing clean code
• Understanding foreign code bases
• Participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture and design
• Spoken and written English on a professional level You are familiar with these tools:
• Peer review and version control platforms like GitHub, Chromatic
• Command line tools like Git, npm, gulp, Webpack, Composer, SSH, WP-CLI
• Component library UIs like Storybook, Fractal, Patternlab
• Continuous integration platforms like Netlify, GitHub Actions
• Project management tools like Asana, ClickUp
• Collaboration tools like Slack and Google Apps (GSuite)
• Documentation tools like Notion This should come out of your work in the end:
• Fast, robust, and reliable websites and services
• Functionality that is well-tested and resolves the needs of the customer
• An implementation approach that can be maintained and updated easily
• Code that is clean and can be understood and extended by others
• Time estimates that are reliable You'll be working with these folks:
• Project Managers
• Developers (including third-party/open-source vendors)
• Analytics & Tracking Specialists
• Customers
• Marketeers
• We deliver results - building towards solid long-term business platforms.
• We make decisions - our customers trust our expertise.
• We resolve presented business cases quickly - without over-engineering stuff.
• We embrace change - without long enterprise-y approval times.
• We share what we learn - with pair programming and R&D times.
• We adopt high standards - ensuring a long-term return on invest for our customers.
• We use the best of breed - Asana, Figma, GitHub, Slack, Notion, …
• We do what we want - we have no "corporate" or VC in the back.
• We are international - English is the company language across all tools, also with customers.
• We communicate directly - especially with customers.

This is what we live every day:

• Independent and self-responsible work is part of our DNA. Flexible working hours and home office are absolutely natural for us – we see our work as a very important part of life. But only as a part that should fit flexibly with the rest.
• You will find a set of values that we love and live every day.
• You’ll meet a colourful international team full of digital enthusiasts who burn for their subjects – just like you do.
• A mentor will give you regular feedback. As we are constantly changing and try to get a little better every day, we would like to see the opposite. Get involved and let us know if we miss a step and what we can do better.
• There is fresh fruit, coffee and soft drinks in all offices. We also meet every Monday for lunch together.
• Togetherness is important to us: we meet for team activities and joint workshops alternately in our offices in Karlsruhe, Cologne and Barcelona.
• You enjoy further education and we support you in this – with language courses, conference visits and further qualifications.
• We are fond of animals: Dogs can be brought to the office after getting to know them. Currently, the Karlsruhe office offers fish and a fluffy dog.
• You will have 28 days of holidays. You can enjoy them when it fits best in your calendar.
• We make sure that you can work under the best conditions: Laptop, mobile phone contract, the right hardware, train ticket or job bike – ride with us!

Start date: Immediately
Model: Hybrid (2 days/week working at the office)
Location: Barcelona or Karlsruhe
Salary range: 48,000 – 65,000 EUR/anno
Required experience: Minimum 8 years experience in the field