E-Commerce

The Westwing mission is to inspire and make every home a beautiful home. We are on a quest to bring the wonders of eCommerce for home & living to our more than 1.5 million active customers in 11 countries. In only 10 years on the market, we have grown to more than 433 million Euros in annual revenue. More importantly, the opportunity ahead of us is massive.
The Westwing team is the secret to our success. Our more than 1,700 team members balance creativity and style with innovative technology and strong business fundamentals. We are proud to be working with inspiring colleagues who are smart, fun, ambitious, and looking for the challenge to transform an industry and take it into the future.

The team is responsible for maintaining the core tools for our production teams, campaign generation and catalog production.

Do you think this could be you? We are looking for an awesome Tech Lead PHP (m/f/d) with a strong PHP background.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Manage a cross-functional team building services written in PHP
• Design, build and maintain scalable and highly available services
• Ensure your services are well tested, architected, meet our coding standards and have proper logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Set up processes and methodologies optimized for shipping code
• Mentor developers from various disciplines and ensuring their constant professional growth
• Work closely with product owners and business stakeholders to design technical solutions to fit product needs

You come with:

• Several years of experience in PHP 7 development of large scale and highly available applications
• 2+ years of experience in a team lead role. Managing people is just as exciting as managing software
• Strong problem-solving skills and proactive attitude in suggesting solutions and improvements
• Passion for shipping. CI/CD is a must. Putting code live every day is a given
• Experience with RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins)
• Architecture skills – both code and infrastructure. Acronyms like SOLID and DDD make you excited. People know you as that person who is always talking about “Decoupling”, “Onions” and “Hexagons”
• Strong communication skills – You are able to explain complex technical topics to non-technical counterparts in a simple and understandable way
• Result driven: you create momentum based on your ultimate goal of getting things done

We offer:

• An open-minded tech organization with a “best tool for the job” attitude. Freedom to choose your tools and technology gives plenty of room for learning and experimentation
• A continuous self-improvement environment. Access to e-learning portals, budget for conferences, and paid certifications are just some of the ways we help you be your best self
• A great atmosphere. Team events and hackathons are some of the ways we make our office a place you want to hang out
• Ability to define your job. We are always happy to help you take new responsibilities and help you grow into the role you want
• A brand-new top-of-the-line MacBook Pro with whichever accessories you fancy. Deck out your workstation with whichever editors, tools, and accessories you need to feel at home
• Internal mobility. If you want to learn something new or try a new team, we have a “team-rotation” program that allows you to switch to open positions in other teams

Location: Munich or Warsaw. Remote from Germany, Poland, Spain or Italy

Interested? Looking forward to your full application under the specification of your possible starting date and salary expectation