Who we are
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), meaning you have the best of both worlds. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.
Tasks
We are seeking a Lead Engineer (all genders) to lead one of our platform teams responsible for managing our internal identity access management and mailing products. As a Lead Engineer, you will play a key role in guiding this team, closely collaborating with other product teams, driving product implementation, and supporting the growth and development of engineers within your team.
It’s equivalent to our Engineering Manager position and reports to the Head of Architecture. As a Lead Engineer joining our team, you will initially focus on hands-on technical tasks like an individual contributor allowing you to gain a deep understanding of our infrastructure and system so that you know the code inside and out. Later on your will also take over managerial tasks and acting as the people manager for the team.
Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail
- You have found your passion in software development – but you enjoy building the right team, removing roadblocks, helping others, creating transparency and alignment even more than being an individual contributor
- You are responsible for advancing your team members’ skills and careers and inspiring them through purpose
- You are not afraid to get your hands dirty by actively contributing to development efforts with a focus on using backend technologies such as Golang and PHP (among others)
- You make sure we are continuously raising the engineering bar, with experience and passion for software excellence
- You are responsible for the delivery of the IAM and Mailing product while balancing time, budget, and quality
- You develop, monitor and own the relevant KPIs for your teams (cost, SLAs, SLIs, etc.)
- You contribute to our guidelines, policies and standards to improve how we work
Your profile – this is what we expect from you
- You have a background in a product team, focusing on the right technical solutions and don’t shy away from owning your products end-to-end
- You have several years of hands-on engineering experience in Go and knowledge of PHP
- You have experience with utilizing cloud and infrastructure resources and are familiar with tools like Kubernetes
- Your communication and interpersonal skills stand out, enabling you to collaborate effectively with product teams
- Your approach is results-oriented, with a dedicated focus on delivering top-notch solutions
- Your problem-solving skills are robust, complemented by a proactive attitude
Benefits
- Create your own work-life balance: Work remotely (within Germany) 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 Ubunutu 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!
Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce
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!
Your application
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.
