Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Global Fashion Group (GFG) is the leading fashion and lifestyle retail destination in Asia Pacific, Latin America and CIS. We connect over 10,000 global, local and own brands to a market of more than one billion consumers through four established e-commerce platforms: THE ICONIC, ZALORA, dafiti and lamoda. Through an inspiring and seamless customer experience enabled by our own technology ecosystem and operational infrastructure, we are dedicated to being the #1 fashion and lifestyle destination in our markets. With 17 offices and 10 fulfilment centres across four continents, GFG proudly employs a dynamic and diverse team with deep local knowledge and expertise. In 2019, GFG delivered more than 34 million orders to over 13 million Active Customers.

ABOUT THE FUNCTION

• We are building a new team under the marketplace roof, which will be working on the development of our platform and setting the grounds of our transition from monolith to microservices
• Our teams are set up internationally in Vietnam and Germany

ABOUT THE ROLE 

• You will work in a team developing our marketplace platform that serves over 10,000 fashion brands over the world
• Contribute to the growth of the team by sharing your knowledge in software design and best practices
• Proactively apply your analytical and critical thinking to our business problems, sharing your questions and points of view in our in depth grooming sessions
• You will participate in the design and execution of fundamental architectural leaps in the core of our business
• Investigate the latest technologies to improve site reliability, developer experience and raw performance

THE IMPACT YOU’LL MAKE

• We need you to help us scale our marketplace platform to match the demands of the increased eCommerce
• Your opinion counts in how we will design our new APIs and microservices architecture
• In the big picture your work will impact the lives of millions of customers shopping in countries all over the world

• Very good level of English
• Demonstrated experience with PHP and MySQL
• You can switch from talking with Product Owners and back with fellow engineers with no effort
• You believe in improving every piece of code that falls into your hands, by default
• You have 4+ years of experience with high-traffic distributed systems and client-server architectures
• You are a living TDD and can talk comfortably in terms of design patterns
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and experience in a microservices environment is a plus
• Experience with Java and/or Golang is a plus