Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout (all genders)

Location: Hamburg, HH, de

Company Description

SCAYLE is one of the fastest-growing enterprise commerce platforms in the world, enabling brands and retailers to realize their D2C ambitions. SCAYLE stands for innovation, international collaboration, and a strong focus on data. We believe that stepping outside of our comfort zone and making bold decisions is key to growing both professionally and personally. Instead of seeing problems as obstacles, we approach them as opportunities to find better solutions. We work in an environment that encourages flexibility, creativity, and continuous development. What drives us is the shared motivation to make an impact and actively shape the future of eCommerce.

Job Description

• Turn real business needs into clean, idiomatic Go code that your team can easily build on
• Partner with the team to design and build a rock-solid, highly scalable Go API architecture
• Champion clean coding practices like TDD, pair programming, and agile workflows
• Pick the right tool for the job: getting the most out of Go’s speed without being stuck in dogma
• Bring your own ideas to the table in a flat hierarchy with fast, direct decision-making

Qualifications

• Self-starter who steps up, takes responsibility, and stays curious about new ways to solve problems
• Comfortable taking complex, low-latency features from the drawing board all the way to production without hand-holding
• Collaborative builder who writes solid, dependable code and makes everyone around them better
• Knows Go inside out, writing clean, idiomatic code and making the most of its built-in concurrency
• Strong foundation in modern Symfony or Laravel, with a track record of building clean, scalable apps
• Hands-on experience with modern PHP is a big plus
• Deep grasp of core engineering principles (SOLID, clean code) and distributed system design
• Knows their way around MySQL (smart indexing, query tuning) and Redis (caching patterns, data structures)
• Hands-on or curious about leveraging GenAI to build smarter, modern product features
• Fluent in English and comfortable sharing ideas, alignment, and technical trade-offs across the team

Additional Information

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Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!
(Please note that benefits may vary depending on the location)

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 fairness.