Senior Backend Engineer

Company Description ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective. Job Description Develop smart product-stream sortings incorporating user signals while utilizing NodeJS with TypeScript.Manage extensive data volumes efficiently, employing Google BigQuery and integrating seamlessly with Business Intelligence systems and our data platform.Build and enhance high-traffic APIs, ensuring minimal latencies.Collaborate closely with seasoned engineers, product managers, data scientists, and analysts to enhance current functionalities and launch novel features.Encouragement for innovative ideas and creations, a flat organizational structure, and rapid decision-making processes ensure ample room for contribution and growth.Explore new technologies and methodologies, especially in the fields of machine learning and generative AI Qualifications 5+ years experience in building scalable APIs (e.g. using node.js, Python or Go)Practical & recent experience with a typed programming language (e.g. TypeScript)Solid know how in working with SQL or No-SQL databasesYou write well-structured, efficient and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the code base in checkYou have excellent analytical and problem-solving skillsYou are used to working in an English-speaking and agile environmentYou raise the bar of the software you work onYou enjoy being responsible for a product, owning it deeply and as well push for own improvement ideas to work on within the team Nice to have Experience with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (Datadog)Hands-on experience with a cloud ecosystem (e.g. AWS, GCP) and integration with orchestration services (like Dagster or Airflow)Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearchExperience building Data Models using dbtExperience of running data processing pipelines using distributed data processing frameworksHands-on Experience with Machine Learning Models or LLM-based systems is a plus Additional Information Your perks at a glance: Visit our benefits page. Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible! A Place Where You Can Be You We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are. Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter. What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.