Senior Software Engineer (all genders)

Permanent contract, full-time or part-time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf

We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce 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 // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work remotely (within Germany) and choose the best of both. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life 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 cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech-en/.

• As a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) you proactively develop the Kaufland.de Marketplace and internal services further
• In our cross-functional teams, you regularly work with colleagues from other disciplines to develop good products together
• You work in a challenging environment and use cutting edge technologies and innovative processes
• You take part in the product discovery phase to make sure we build the right things fitting to our architecture and find solutions which can be implemented easily
• With your well-founded experience and skills, you are committed to continuously improve your colleagues’ know-how, methodology and quality, and you lead by example

• You have an educational level that corresponds to completed university studies in (business) information technology, (business) engineering, mathematics or physics, or you have comparable practical experience
• You are an experienced senior engineer used to solving engineering problems with the tools & frameworks that make sense both for the problem domain and the engineering organization. Our tech stack is predominantly PHP, with growing use of Node.js and Go
• You have a very high capacity for abstraction, analytical thinking and your actions are always based on partnership
• You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further in order to become a little bit better every day
• Passion for what you do and a strong interest in current e-commerce trends and developments
• You have in-depth knowledge of software development methods and principles, coupled with healthy pragmatism
• You possess a vast experience of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle
• You possess excellent communication skills and have a very good command of English

• Create your own work-life balance: Work remotely or at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf!
• 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 start-up 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, it's 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 all-hands meetings and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• Boost your growth : Benefit from our online language learning offers, our various in-house training offers as well as our automated 360-degree feedback to boost your personal and professional growth
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce 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. That’s why we organise company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers 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 company Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!

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. Read more here!

Why are you the perfect fit for this position?
Don't bother with cover letters - we're 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.

Your contact person: Lena Höllerer
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Köln

We operate Kaufland’s international online marketplaces. Behind the scenes you’ll find a team more than 850 strong, made up of international, inspired, intelligent minds. We work remotely within Germany, as well as in-person at our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, and Düsseldorf. Our goal? Keep improving our customers’ digital shopping experience every day.