Backend Engineer (E-Commerce team

As a Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) you will join a talented product team dedicated to developing and maintaining the global Tonies online shopping experience. Your focus will be on continuous discovery, usability, quality and security, ensuring a top-tier experience for our millions of users worldwide.

In the Shop/Collect stream, you will play a key role in ensuring the seamless integration of our e-commerce services, self-build services and components, standardised and also specialised per market. You will enable our B2C customers to choose the best Tonies products - physical and digital - for their kids by providing them with a state-of-the-art personalized online shopping experience that scales with high demand events like Black Friday.

Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Take charge of developing, maintaining, and migrating our Tonies shop infrastructure, ensuring it meets the needs of millions of customers
• Play a key role in our e-commerce ecosystem, which includes:

• A robust backend platform offering RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• A modern UI that is in transition to be assembled by a new token design system

• Ensure the reliability of our services - 24/7, 365 days a year - helping us achieve our 99.99% SLA
• Collaborate in a cross-functional, stream-aligned team to deliver seamless, always-on services
• Work closely with the Product Manager, UXer, and specialised engineers to ensure a fantastic user experience in web (and app) - supporting families to easily buy Tonieboxes, Tonies, and more, enabling unlimited joy for our little listeners, Please note: We kindly ask that you submit your application documents in English.

As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies®. We actively celebrate our colleagues' different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.

Technical Skills

• You are fluent in at least two programming languages - ideally, one of them is TypeScript - and you can quickly adapt to new languages when needed.
• Experience with Commercetools and/or Shopify (Headless) is a big plus.
• Some knowledge of PHP and Symfony is helpful.
• You are familiar with event-driven architectures.
• APIs (REST or GraphQL) are like your native language.
• Your code is lean, well-structured, and easy to understand. You avoid unnecessary complexity from the outset and have a knack for solving complex problems with simple solutions.
• Working with Git and GitLab is part of your daily routine.

Quality & Collaboration

• You place great importance on automated tests, CI/CD, and observability.
• You are comfortable communicating in English in a professional work environment.
• Collaborating in a cross-functional team (backend, frontend, app, UX) and interacting with peers and stakeholders across multiple time zones is agreeable to you.

Passion & Mindset

• You have been a passionate software engineer for many years and are excited to continue improving your skills.
• Your work style is characterised by agility, teamwork, independence, and creativity, especially when exploring new solutions.
• You have a strong bias to action, are a self-starter and have the ability to take ownership for execution.
• Last but not least: You are enthusiastic about our product and want to join us on our exciting journey!

• Global Teamwork: We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
• Come as you are: This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
• Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
• Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
• Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave as well as three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).
• Flexible Working: Equipped with individual equipment, you can work remotely for up to 5 days in consultation with your team - depending on your area of responsibility. And if you're up for a workation, you can work from abroad for up to 30 calendar days per year.
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
• Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
• Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.

Good to know

tonies is the globally leading interactive audio platform for children with more than 10 million Tonieboxes and 125 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes around 1,400 Tonies in several languages. Since its inception, tonies has achieved significant milestones, including listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November 2021 as well as a globally present team of over 550 dedicated professionals operating from various countries. Joining our tonies team means being part of an inspiring mission to create innovative and meaningful experiences for children around the world. Together, we're shaping the future of play, learning, and imagination. You as part of tonies: Do you want to develop a product that's used worldwide? Do you have high standards for continuous discovery, usability, and clean code? Do you challenge decisions and ideas against current requirements to ensure continuous improvement? If you answered "YES!" to these questions, we want to talk to you!