Lead PHP / Fullstack Developer (m/f/d)

We are an owner-managed digital agency with headquarters in Cologne Ehrenfeld and further locations in Berlin Kreuzberg, Hamburg and Munich. A total of 260 motivated denkwerkers from 28 nations are waiting for you, including about 180 colleagues at the Cologne office, which is constantly growing. We create unique digital products for various clients such as Congstar, DeepL, ESPRIT, Mainova, Microsoft, Motel One, STIEBEL ELTRON and STORCK. Varied projects with modern concepts of software development as well as the development of sophisticated web applications are waiting for you. Feel free to visit our tech stack on Stackshare to learn more about our tools. To round off your onboarding, you can expect regular feedback meetings. As a "Great Place to Work 2023" employer, your opinion is important to us, because we live an open feedback culture! We like to celebrate, especially our successes – look forward to celebrations of all kinds, such as our summer parties and Christmas parties.

• We are looking for you, with a keen eye for details and with pleasure in maintaining web projects and their further development
• You will take over the technical as well as disciplinary leadership of a web developer team of 5-8 people
• You have at least 5 years of professional experience in an agency or IT environment
• Through your encouragement and coaching, you will help to develop your team further
• You ensure compliance with budget and time requirements as well as the quality of our web projects
• You have very good knowledge in PHP, are fit in HTML and CSS/SCSS and bring along solid knowledge in Javascript
• Do you have a convincing appearance and are you able to do this with the customer? Great - we also like to get to know our customers on site
• Agile mindset? Absolutely! Our projects mainly take place in an agile environment and we work with tools like Miro, Jira and Confluence
• We are excited to get to know you and your experience!

• Agency feel and mobile working: easily compatible through our hybrid working model and flexible working hours
• Workout-life-balance: Cooperation with Urban Sports Club and leasing offer from JobRad
• Profit sharing: As a permanent part of denkwerk, you will share in the profits
• Continuing internal & external education opportunities: TechTalks, Service Design Workshops and individual trainings, financed by a continuing education budget
• Free choice of devices: Whether Mac, Linux or Windows - you may also use our hardware privately
• Support in all life situations: Counseling opportunities from pme Familienservice 
• denkfrei days: Carnival Monday, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are free for everyone at denkwerk
• denkmate: that's what we call our experienced denkwerkers, who are there to help and advise you at the start of your new working day
• Corporate benefits: all kinds of employee discounts
• Snacks & Drinks: cool lemonades, beer, fresh coffee or even fruit and vegetables - there's something for everyone

Can't wait to get started? Neither can we! We're looking for you to start immediately, but we're also flexible with your possible start date. 
 
Please also send us your CV and salary requirements.
 
P. S.: Classic cover letters are too normal for you? Surprise us with your creativity and introduce yourself and your motivations in your own way. We are curious!

Marie Rybarczik, Rusin Hassan & Charlotta Kowitz, Talent Acquisition Team