Employment details
Permanent Contract Full or PartTime Remote or Cologne / Dsseldorf / Darmstadt
Info
Who we are
We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastestgrowing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a startup mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in ecommerce 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 // Dsseldorf 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 ecommerce and maximum flexibility for your personal worklife 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 crossfunctional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here:
We are looking for a talented and experienced Frontend Engineer who is not only skilled but also passionate about solving diverse engineering challenges. You should be comfortable using the right tools and frameworks that align with both the problem domain and our engineering organization.
Tasks
Your tasks this is what awaits you in detail
- As a Senior Frontend Engineer (all genders) in our team you proactively develop the Kaufland Marketplace and internal services further
- You connect us to the rapidlygrowing customer base and in cooperation with our UX / UI experts you provide the best shopping experience
- You continuously optimize and maintain existing frontend applications regarding performance speed usability by minimizing load times and maximizing interactivity
- Based on your wellfounded experience and skills you proactively contribute with ideas to improve the development process
- You develop highly scalable and highperformance applications that efficiently handle web pages with significant traffic
- You continuously improve your colleagues knowhow methodologies and delivery quality and you lead by example
- You work in an international Englishspeaking team
Profile
Your profile this is what we expect from you
- You have extensive knowledge of and TypeScript
- You have expertise with (CSR/SSR) or are skilled in other common frameworks
- You have indepth knowledge of software development methods and principles that translate into writing code that is easy to understand and maintain
- You have solid knowledge about testing debugging monitoring and infrastructure
- You have excellent communication skills and know how to document technical specifications and decisions that affect your team or other teams
- You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further every day
- You have a very high capacity for abstraction analytical thinking and your decisions are based on have built APIs using different paradigms (RESTful gRPC)
- You have experience in validating ideas using A/B Tests within fastpaced cycles
- You are familiar with backend application development either in PHP or other languages
Benefits
What we offer
- Create your own worklife balance: Work remotely (within Germany) or at one of our locations in Cologne Darmstadt Dsseldorf!
- 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 startup mentality meet the power of a big corporate group providing you an agile and secure working environment
- Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux its 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 allhands meetings and regular team and company events
- Mental wellbeing: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional wellbeing journey!
- Boost your growth : Benefit from our online language learning offers our various inhouse training offers as well as our automated 360degree feedback to boost your personal and professional growth
- The future is digital: Develop the ecommerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
- Deutschlandticket : We subsidise 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. Thats why we organise company events and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) gettogethers 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 companyCheck out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!
Diversity at Kaufland ecommerce
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.
Your application
Why are you the perfect fit for this position
Dont bother with cover letters were interested in facts and figures!
How would you like to be addressed
Feel free to add the following pronouns she/her him/he or they/them optionally (e.g. after your name) in your CV.
As we have very international teams we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.
Contact Person
Your contact person: Kristina Heymann & Verena Schilmann
Kaufland ecommerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Kln
We are looking forward to your application!