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Software Engineer

We enable medium-sized and large companies to offer their employees efficient and sustainable learning solutions.
We were founded in 2019 and are based in Stuttgart and Kempten.
We are proud to develop innovative educational approaches and to provide our customers with high-quality opportunities to further develop their employees.

Your mission

  • Independent feature development

  • Code reviews and team collaboration

  • Optimization of existing features

  • Working without a pre-existing design (using existing components)

Your profile

Are you proud of your code and comfortable shipping without an endless approval process?
Do you dislike endless meetings and complicated processes?

Additionally, the following roughly describes you:

  • Living in Germany or the EU

  • 1+ years of experience in professional software development

  • Business-fluent English (required); German (optional)

  • Teamwork (remote)

  • Continuous learning — you want to grow

  • Confident with Git

  • Maintainable code

    • PHP with the Laravel framework or other modern frameworks

    • Frontend development with Vue.js or comparable frameworks

  • A feel for usability

  • Open minded / experience with AI assisted development

  • Enjoy refactoring — we also have legacy code

  • Relational databases

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

Why us?


Have you ever been to a supermarket? You’ve probably already benefited from easy-plu, even if you didn’t realize it.
With easy-plu, we’ve built a leading learning platform for Germany’s largest retailers.
In parallel, we’re expanding our e-learning portfolio with new products.

easy-plu at a glance

- > 12,000 supermarket stores use easy-plu
- > 250,000 active users in over 30 countries
- > 120,000 learning sessions per day

Our Current Tech Stack

  • PHP 8.4 with Laravel

  • MariaDB

  • Vue.js with TypeScript and the Composition API

  • State management with Pinia

  • Tailwind CSS

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Playwright for E2E testing

  • GitLab CI


What We Offer

  • Startup feeling without overtime

  • Exciting challenges in a growing e-learning and SaaS environment

  • Location flexibility: Stuttgart, Kempten, or fully remote

  • Flexible working hours for work–life balance

  • Few meetings — you can focus on your work

  • Flat hierarchies and an open communication culture

  • Professional development budget for conferences, certifications, and courses


Application Process

  1. Intro conversation (20 min, online)

  2. Code challenge (no time pressure)

  3. Presentation and technical interview with the lead developer (60 min, online)

  4. Meet the team (30 min, online)

  5. CEO meeting & offer (online)

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