Your tasks:

• You are responsible for the development of our high traffic web applications (e.g. price comparison, hotel booking or B2B applications, web services).
• Demonstrate excellent technical skills while creating and implementing new website features or web service features.
• Set up efficient and high performing database queries in MySQL.
• Breathe new life into our front-end development utilizing event based and asynchronous JavaScript.
• Keep an eye on new technologies to ensure trivago stays a trend setter.

Your profile:

• You hold an academic degree in the field of IT or have completed a comparable apprenticeship successfully.
• You know PHP like the back of your hand and you are an experienced user of Webservices. Experience with Unit Test (JUnit and/or PHPUnit) is also necessary.
• Dependency injection sounds familiar to you.
• You’re confident using MVC frameworks (e.g. Symfony2 or Zend Framework2).
• You’re experienced in software engineering, ideally in a high performance environment and have used agile development methods (eg.Kanban) before.
• Proper handling of Unix based systems is required.
• Experiences with continuous integration would be a plus.
• You’re comfortable speaking English. Basic understanding of German would be a plus.
• You love technical challenges and have a hunger to learn new things.
• You’re results-oriented and have excellent organizational skills.

What we offer:

• State-of-the-art open source technology (Symfony2, Jenkins CI, Git, Composer, Docker, Vagrant, Continuous Deployment, ETL-Tools).
• Attractive office spaces in Leipzig city centre.
• A permanent contract and competitive salary.
• Flexible working hours.
• Agile software development processes and exciting projects with a high demand on quality.
• A free choice of computer and equipment.
• A pleasant working environment within a dynamic and international team.
• Independent work in an innovative, rapidly growing company.
• Fast personal development and a steep learning curve.
• Flat hierarchies and short decision paths.
• Possibility to work from our office in Palma de Mallorca and Düsseldorf up to 4 weeks a year.
• Regular team events, a wide range of sport activities, a fridge full of beer and non-alcoholic beverages as well as fresh fruit every day.

Starting date: As soon as possible
Location: Leipzig, Germany

Please send your CV, Code Sample (or GitHub Account) and Cover Letter in English.

Please also send:
– Your salary expectation
– Your earliest possible starting date

Apply here for the position as Software Engineer PHP (Leipzig) with our client trivago.

Your HR Consultant Kadri
is available for additional questions
Mo–Fri 9.00 – 17.00 CET
(Check for your local time)
Tel: +49 211 995 459 35