Backend Engineer - Sponsored Content & Products (PHP)

Location: Hamburg or Berlin, Germany

Salary: €60,000–€70,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a European e-commerce company combining fashion and technology to create a personal, seamless online shopping experience.

What you will do

• Build scalable backend services and RESTful APIs for a self-serve cost-per-click bidding marketplace and brand tools.
• Develop clean, reliable PHP 8.2+ and Laravel code for high-throughput advertising pipelines.
• Write unit and integration tests, participate in peer reviews, and identify refactoring opportunities.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and senior technical leads to turn ad-tech requirements into working features.
• Monitor application health and debug backend issues affecting real-time ad serving and bidding endpoints.
• Use AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Gemini to accelerate implementation, testing, and problem-solving.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with PHP 8.2+, Laravel, object-oriented design, and clean coding practices.
• Experience building secure RESTful APIs with authentication, authorization, request validation, and rate limiting.
• Good knowledge of relational databases, SQL queries, schemas, indexes, and migrations.
• Familiarity with application logging, error tracking, and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
• Ownership, pragmatic engineering judgment, and clear communication with non-technical colleagues.

Nice to have

• Experience with AdTech or loyalty domains, including campaign dashboards, ad-tech delivery stacks, budgeting engines, reward systems, or coupon systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Flat hierarchies, direct communication, pragmatic decisions, and clear ownership.
• Inclusive environment that values acceptance, diversity, and different perspectives.
• Team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, and informal opportunities to connect.
• Additional employee perks are provided through the company benefits program.

Hiring process

• Apply online through the career page.