ABOUT YOU GmbH & Co. KG

ABOUT YOU GmbH & Co. KG

Lead Full Stack Developer (m/f/d) – onsite or remote in Germany

We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Lead Full Stack Developer to become part of and direct one of our Tech Units at ABOUT YOU !

Our Tech Department is the heart of ABOUT YOU , driven by the passion to develop the best infrastructure & tech applications. As our Lead Full Stack Developer , you will direct a team of 5 to 7 developers in collaboration with the product manager. With your deep understanding of building digital products and software development, you will constantly optimize our complex applications in consideration of all requirements and stakeholders.

Contribute to one of the fastest-growing eCommerce infrastructures in Europe and become part of ABOUT YOU as a Lead Full Stack Developer !

What you will do

  • Build complex & high scalable technical solutions in close cooperation with our Tech Lead and the Product Lead as well as the product manager
  • Draft architectural decisions and ensure reliable and state-of-the-art products
  • Lead a world-class team of engineers and collaborate with product managers, QA’s, and collaborate with designers to ship new components and features
  • Work within a dynamic & international environment with an agile working culture using methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban
  • Work in an agile & international team with flat hierarchies and very short decision-making process

Who you are

  • You have 5+ years of experience in developing high-scalable software products with PHP (Laravel or Symfony framework) and JavaScript (preferably Vue.js or React.js)
  • You are proficient in building complex and beautiful products which are able to handle the requests by millions of users
  • You feel comfortable with people management topics and have worked in a leading role in a fast-changing environment before
  • You have a very good technical understanding of RESTful APIs
  • You write well-structured, efficient and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the codebase in check
  • You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • You are used to working in an English-speaking environment

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents. 🙂


About ABOUT YOU GmbH & Co. KG

ABOUT YOU is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce startups in Europe. The company was founded in 2014, since then already got to the place being the second-largest fashion retailer in Europe - being live in 10 countries  reached a company valuation  1 billion $ in 2019. ABOUT YOU is a fashion online shop, but we are a tech company first. More than ? of our employees are developers. Our > 150 developers originally from 30 different nationsensure that we keep our > 8 million app installs up to date our over 15 million active users per month happy. When dealing with each other, we believe in flat hierarchies open honest communication. We don’t cling to a certain idea. New information leads to new decisions, which we are open to. We want to build the online shopping experience while being fast in our development - therefore we strongly believe in small teams. Our average team size includes 4-6 developers. Yes, we are working - most teams work with , some with Kanban or a mixture. You have the choice between different hardware setups e.g. Macbook or Windows notebook which kind IDE you want to get working. Our source code is versioned in git repositories we are using git flow as a workflow model. Find out more about our tech stack, the way we work more here!