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🕒 March 26

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Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2001

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

🎮 Gaming

Media • Sports • Gaming

Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG is a leading online platform dedicated to football (soccer) enthusiasts and professionals. The website provides a comprehensive range of services including the latest football news, transfer rumors, player market values, competitions, and statistics. Known for its extensive database, Transfermarkt covers numerous leagues and clubs worldwide, offering detailed information on player transfers, match results, and club news. It also features community forums for discussions and offers services tailored for player agents. The platform's robust data and insights are valuable resources for fans, analysts, and professionals involved in the football industry.

📋 Description

• As a PHP developer you are part of our backend team and collaborate with colleagues from other software areas to further develop our platform. • You design new features on our existing Yii-based site, contribute to our new Symfony developments and actively help migrate the monolith to a service-oriented architecture. • You further develop existing Transfermarkt features and initiate new ones – both in the monolith and in the new Symfony stack. • You build robust REST APIs that connect our web and app projects. • You coordinate closely with stakeholders, for example on API design or integrating external services. • You work in a growing system that handles many millions of requests per day – performance, scalability and clean architecture are a key focus. • You build it, you run it: your interest goes beyond software development and you are also curious about how the application behaves in production, how it is monitored and how it can be improved. • You develop within an agile Scrum process in two-week sprints and actively participate in reviews, retrospectives and technical improvements.

🎯 Requirements

• Several years of experience developing with PHP – ideally with Symfony, Yii or comparable frameworks • Familiarity with REST APIs and classic MVC architecture, and openness to transitioning to a modern service-based environment • Understanding of performance, scalability and maintainability of large web applications • Interest in close technical coordination with microservice and frontend colleagues • You enjoy working in a team, actively participate in code reviews and take responsibility for your topics • Very good German language skills (at least C1) are required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Experience football up close: Our international team shares a passionate love of football. You can experience this firsthand at the stadium thanks to VIP and season tickets. • Room for your ideas: Whether brownbags, code reviews or tech talks – we live continuous development. You can experiment, contribute and help shape the Transfermarkt of tomorrow. • Flexibility that suits you: Work where you want – in the office, remotely or on workation. Plus: flexible working hours for a real work–life balance. • Active breaks you’ll enjoy: Whether yoga, fitness, swimming or bouldering – with our Urban Sports Club membership you can train across Germany and clear your head. • Team spirit: Regular team events, football quizzes, table football rounds or a Christmas party – we value togetherness. • Development opportunities: We support your continuing education through seminars, training and conference attendance for networking. Our weekly internal English classes not only improve language skills but also strengthen networking within Transfermarkt. • Mobile and economical: With our subsidy for the Deutschlandticket you can travel flexibly and affordably – whether to the stadium or the office. Thinking ahead: we also help you prepare for the future with contributions to pension plans and capital-forming benefits. • Comfortable office atmosphere: Snacks, fruit, drinks and the occasional round of FIFA or table football to clear your mind.