Backend Engineer – Sponsored Content & Products

About ABOUT YOU

Our mission is to digitize the classic shopping stroll, turning it into a personalized, inspiring experience for every customer. Technology and data sit at the center of everything we build. We are not a fashion company with a tech team on the side. Tech drives our product, our strategy, and our growth.

Our proprietary tech stack powers our own shops and SCAYLE, our commerce infrastructure solution that serves over 350 brands globally. Same foundation, bigger stage. The challenges keep things interesting.

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Your Team: Software Development & Engineering

What to Expect

We are looking for a Backend Engineer (m/f/d) to join our newly established Sponsored Content & Products team within ABOUT YOU’s Retail Media Tech organization.

The Sponsored Content & Products team is a key growth driver. Its mission is to build highly scalable self-serve cost-per-click (CPC) bidding marketplaces that empower brands to efficiently boost their visibility in real time, right at the digital point of sale.

This is an exciting technical greenfield opportunity where you will work on building scalable core services from day one, helping shape the product’s technical foundation as we scale our infrastructure to support our target of multiplying our Retail Media revenue.

Your Responsibilities

• Write clean, reliable PHP 8.2+ and Laravel code to build backend services and RESTful APIs that power our self-serve CPC bidding marketplace and brand tools.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests, actively participate in peer code reviews, and identify areas for refactoring to keep high-throughput ad pipelines clean and maintainable.
• Partner closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and senior tech leads to break down marketplace features, estimate technical tasks, and translate ad-tech requirements into working code.
• Follow established repository structures, coding conventions, and CI/CD pipeline steps to ensure backend updates deploy safely and predictably to production.
• Help monitor application health and debug backend issues, making sure real-time ad serving and bidding endpoints remain fast and reliable.
• Integrate modern AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Gemini into your daily workflow to speed up boilerplate creation, test writing, and problem-solving.

Who You Are

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of hands-on professional experience in backend software engineering.
• Strong experience with modern PHP 8.2+ and frameworks such as Laravel, alongside a solid understanding of object-oriented design and clean code practices.
• Practical experience building secure RESTful APIs, implementing authentication and authorization, and setting up request validation and rate limiting.
• Good working knowledge of relational databases, including writing efficient SQL queries, setting up basic table schemas, using indexes, and running migrations.
• Familiarity with application logging, error tracking, and monitoring tools such as Datadog to debug issues in production.
• Comfort using modern AI development tools, such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Gemini, to speed up test writing, boilerplate code, and daily tasks.
• A self-motivated mindset with a strong sense of ownership over your features, from implementation through production.
• A pragmatic approach to engineering that favors shipping clean, reliable code over over-engineering or premature optimization.
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain technical details and trade-offs simply to non-technical teammates.

Nice to Have

• AdTech or Loyalty Domain Familiarity: Prior experience building self-service campaign dashboards, ad-tech delivery stacks, budgeting engines, or reward and coupon systems.