Software Engineer – Developer Experience / Tooling (PHP) (m/w/d)

Job Description

Shopware is an international, leading open commerce platform for ambitious companies in digital commerce. With an API-first approach, maximum flexibility, and a strong community, we create future-oriented e-commerce solutions. Our 450 employees across Europe share a passion for innovation, openness, and team spirit.

If you enjoy building tools that make other developers more productive, and you care deeply about APIs, CLIs, frameworks, and workflows that just feel right, this role is for you. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Developer Experience (DX) Tooling team, you will work on the tooling and foundations developers use to build, extend, test, and operate Shopware. Your contributions will directly influence how enjoyable, efficient, and reliable it is to develop on top of our open‑source platform.

This position can be filled on‑site, hybrid, or full‑remote within Germany or specific European countries where we are registered. Your work location will be agreed in advance and forms the basis of your employment contract.

These are your tasks:

• Empower developers: You design and build developer-facing tools that improve how developers work with Shopware, from local development to CI and production. • Shape DX foundations: You work on CLI tools, SDKs, scaffolding, APIs, and internal frameworks that power Shopware’s open-source ecosystem. • Open source by heart: You collaborate with and support a global developer community by maintaining open-source tooling, reviewing contributions, and improving documentation. • Quality & usability first: You ensure tooling is robust, well-tested, and intuitive, reducing friction and cognitive load for developers. • Bridge teams: You work closely with core, SaaS, documentation, and community teams to align tooling with real developer needs. • Evolve workflows: You improve build, test, release, and extension workflows to enable faster and safer development.

This is what you’ll bring to the table:

• Solid experience with PHP is essential, ideally within a Symfony-based ecosystem. Experience with frameworks such as Laravel is also highly valuable, while familiarity with Golang is a plus. More importantly, you bring an open mindset and genuine motivation to learn new technologies and programming languages where they create value. • You already have hands-on experience improving Developer Experience through CLI tooling, automation, APIs, scaffolding, and workflow optimisation, and you enjoy building tools that make other developers more productive. • A strong focus on DX, usability, maintainability, and software quality guides your decisions. You are comfortable with Composer, dependency management, automated testing, and CI workflows, and care about creating tooling that integrates smoothly into existing developer ecosystems. • Working with AI-assisted development workflows is something you actively embrace. Whether it’s AI-supported coding, automation, documentation, or productivity tooling, you are excited about leveraging AI to improve engineering efficiency and developer experience. • An open source mindset, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with both internal stakeholders and external developers are essential for success in this role. • Excellent English communication, written and spoken, enables you to work effectively across teams and time zones. German is a plus, not a requirement.

This is what we offer you:

• Company Culture: Open culture with flat hierarchies, where individual initiative is encouraged. • Employment Contracts: Permanent positions that offer long-term security. • Flexibility: Flexible working hours and options for mobile work and full-remote contracts. • Equipment: Freedom to choose your preferred work hardware. • Onboarding: Well-structured onboarding with support from a personal "buddy." • Work Environment: An inspiring environment with dedicated colleagues and a dynamic community. • Development Opportunities: Diverse opportunities for personal growth and development. • Additional Benefits: Attractive perks such as company pension plans, health programs, and regular team events. • and much more!

You can get a detailed insight on our career page.

Your personal contact for this position is Josephine Scheffler, and she is happy to answer any questions you may have!

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