About the role

Shape technical direction within the Retail domain.
Build and evolve customer experiences with a frontend focus.
Raise engineering standards and practices.
Mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews.
Connect technology and product for better solutions.

Skills the posting asks for

React.js
JavaScript
Next.js
Java
Docker

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The employer’s full posting

Company Description

About Redcare Pharmacy:

As Europe’s No.1 e-pharmacy Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision “Until every human has their health”. If you’re seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values join us and start your #Redcareer today.

About the role:

As a Staff Software Engineer within our Retail domain, you’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, shaping solutions that serve millions of customers across Europe. You may bring your strongest expertise from either frontend or backend engineering – or both – while the team’s current and upcoming work has a strong frontend focus, giving you the opportunity to influence how our customer-facing experiences evolve at scale.

About the tech stack:

React.js, Next.js, Java, ES6, ESI, Varnish, Docker, Google Cloud, Kubernetes.

While this is a remote position based in Germany, it may require occasional on-site collaboration at our offices in Berlin or Cologne, depending on business and team requirements.

Job Description

About your tasks:

Shape technical direction: Take technical ownership within the Retail domain, guiding architectural decisions around scalability, performance and maintainability and turning complex challenges into pragmatic solutions.
Build and evolve customer experiences: Stay hands-on and shape solutions from early discovery and technical design through implementation, rollout and production, with a strong current focus on our frontend and customer-facing experiences.
Raise engineering standards: Help evolve our engineering practices, shared components and architectural patterns, creating solutions that enable teams to build consistent, reusable and high-quality experiences at scale.
Lead through influence: Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, design discussions and technical feedback, creating alignment around technical decisions and helping raise the engineering level across the Retail domain.
Connect technology and product: Partner closely with Product Owners, UX and engineering colleagues to explore opportunities, identify risks early and balance technical trade-offs, customer value and long-term sustainability.

Qualifications

About you:

You bring deep software engineering expertise, with a strong background in frontend or backend engineering – or across both. You’re comfortable applying that depth to broader architectural and technical challenges, while being open to working in a domain with a strong current frontend focus.
You have operated at Staff/Principal level or demonstrated equivalent technical leadership, with strong architecture and system design capabilities and the confidence to take ownership of complex technical decisions with a high degree of autonomy.
You have a strong track record of mentoring engineers and leading through influence, creating alignment without relying on formal authority and helping teams continuously improve their engineering practices.
You combine strong product thinking with engineering depth: you can work effectively with Product and UX, evaluate trade-offs, validate ideas pragmatically and know when a solution needs to scale versus when the priority is learning quickly.

Additional Information

About your benefits:

In order to provide you with the best possible support for your individual needs - whether it‘s living a healthy life, having enough time for your family, or developing your skills - we offer a wide range of different, site-specific benefits:

Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time.
Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
Vacation: 30 days paid vacation per annum (plus another day on Rosenmontag) and the option to take unpaid vacation of up to 10 days (after one year working with us).
Employee discount: You get a 10 % employee discount on all over the counter, beauty and personal care products in our online store & 20 % discount on nu3.