Senior Web Backend Developer (m/f/d)

YOUR MISSION

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

YOUR EXPERIENCE

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

OUR TOOLS

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

THE RESULTS

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

YOUR PEERS

You'll be working with these folks:

• Project Managers
• Developers (including third-party/open-source vendors)
• Analytics & Tracking Specialists
• Customers
• Marketeers

OUR PROMISE

• 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.