Senior Full Stack Engineer (all genders) ☠️
Are you a Full Stack Developer looking to contribute to the ongoing development of our web app? You might be just who we’re looking for!
Summary
Team: New Team (Keyword: Serenity 2)
Position: Senior Full Stack Engineer
Location/Remote-Work: The work style is hybrid, you can work from home, but you should live in the broader hamburg area to be able to meet your team in the office (especially for onboarding)
Languages: German and English (B1 is the minimum level for both)
Who We’re Looking For
We’re searching for a Full Stack Engineer, ideally with 5+ years of experience in SaaS projects. You would share with us the following expertise:
- Web and software development in an agile team
- Experience in modern architectures, design patterns, and best practices for clean code
- PHP8 & SQL
- Unit/Integration/Acceptance Tests with Codeception, PHPUnit, and Cypress
- React and TypeScript
- RESTful APIs
Nice-to-have skills:
- Apollo, GraphQL
- Security (best practices, fraud detection, and penetration testing)
- CI/CD with GitLab, AWS Cloud, Docker
You can check out our full tech stack in our Tech Radar.
Since we work in cross-functional teams, mastering every area is not necessary. What matters most is that you share our values and are a good fit with our crew. We value personal development and provide the space for it. Strong English language skills are essential, as we regularly communicate with colleagues in the US and write documentation in English. At work, we communicate mostly in German, but we can all speak English. If you speak pirate that wouldn’t hurt either – YYYAAAARRRRrrrrrr!
The Team and Domains
This new product team is going to get onboarded by team mates of an existing team called Serenity and is going to tackle projects in the following areas:
- Reconciliation of Shipped Packages (Sometimes packages are different - e.g. heavier -than expected so we need to reconcile the shipping costs for each package when the carrier says so)
- Expanding and optimizing our test suite (PHPUnit, Codeception, Cypress)
- Improving the modularization of existing code and refactoring legacy code
- Scaling our database setup (Aurora MySQL, TimescaleDB, Elasticsearch, Redis)
Who We Are
Since our founding in 2014, we’ve been disrupting the package shipping market in the US with our software.
Our mission is to make the complex parcel shipping process as simple, user-friendly, and affordable as possible. We operate in multiple locations in the US and serve the American market exclusively. However, the development of our web app has always had its home base in Hamburg-Ottensen.
Together with our overseas colleagues, we work daily to deliver the best possible product for our users. This is what we’re valued for, and it’s the wind in our sails.
Our Values & Culture
As an owner-managed company with a crisis-proof product in a growth-oriented market, we can combine high quality standards, attention to detail, and an attractive working environment with great conditions. We believe creativity and room for personal ideas provide the optimal environment for innovation, progress, and quality. Trust and helpfulness, combined with many opportunities to take on responsibility, enable personal growth. This means working with minimal hierarchy and a pull, not push, approach to tasks.
This agile, self-organized way of working requires a high level of personal responsibility and enthusiasm for close teamwork.We give each other quick feedback and aren’t afraid of conflict but always find fair, solution-oriented consensus. In doing so, we learn a lot from each other, and value diversity as opportunity.
To ensure long-term collaboration, we do everything possible to make family and work compatible.
What Doesn’t Fit
You won’t be happy here if you expect complete, end-to-end processes like in large corporations. On our ship, some things are still not perfectly tied down, but we work together to improve systematically. You’ll also be unhappy if you’re a lone wolf, apathetic, or expect to be told exactly what to do. And if you happen to be a macho, fascist, or conspiracy theorist, you’ll be quickly keelhauled!
Anything Else?
We haven’t listed the usual perks like free fruit, beer, foosball, or ball pits. If you’d like those, let’s chat. We either already have them or can make them happen!We offer the following:
- You decide whether to work remotely or on-site at our Ottensen office
- We’re only hiring in Hamburg and surrounding areas, as we occasionally meet in person for special events
- Part-time work is possible
- 30 days of vacation
- Flexible working hours
- Regarding development environments: we use a lot of macOS, but also ARRRrrrch Linux and Ubuntu. Windows isn’t supported and isn’t planned. You’ll work with a MacBook or ThinkPad. Most of us use PHPStorm, Vim, or VS Code for development.
Next Steps
If you think you’d be a good fit for our team, feel free to reach out via email.
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