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Senior PHP Developer | Amsterdam | E-Commerce | Hybrid
Established, ScaleUp
Amsterdam
Vast
90k
Does it sound appealing to work for a company that processes and manages 1 billion product listings daily for 30,000 different webshops? Do you have strong PHP knowledge (preferably in Laravel), maybe some extra knowledge in Java (a bonus, but not a must-have)? Would you like to work in an international team where you get a lot of freedom, plenty of ownership, and above all, real growth opportunities (think Team Lead)?
Sounds good? Great, keep reading!
About the company
Our client is an e-commerce platform active throughout Europe, managing Shopping campaigns for webshops of all sizes, from small retailers to major players like Ebay, Amazon, AliExpress, and more. They retrieve product feeds from webshops, process them, and upload them to advertising platforms. This amounts to roughly 1 billion product listings per day. The scale is large, the systems are complex, and there's always plenty of work to do.
The tech team consists of 8 people and works from Amsterdam, with 3 colleagues based abroad. English is the working language due to the international nature of the team. The culture is informal: little bureaucracy, daily standups, and lots of freedom to organize your own work. There's a large backlog and plenty of challenges for the coming years. The foundation is solid, but there's a lot to improve in terms of architecture, observability, and scalability. You won't be building something from scratch here, but rather improving and expanding what's already running. What will you be doing?
You'll work on the backend of a platform that processes, transforms, and uploads product feeds. The codebase has grown organically over the years and needs attention in several areas. You'll spot where things can be improved and take action to make it happen. You'll work closely with a small DevOps team and an operations team that manages...