[Hiring] (Senior) Business Automation Developer @Kaufland e-commerce

Role Description

The Internationalization team at Kaufland e-commerce plays a crucial role in expanding our online marketplaces into new countries. To do this, we increasingly rely on automated processes and scalable technical solutions to enter new markets quickly and efficiently. The team works cross-functionally with all areas of the company to ensure our international success.

• You turn business processes into automated, self-serve solutions — from discovery to rollout, partnering closely with business departments to analyze and redesign existing workflows.
• You design and optimize AI-driven solutions, drawing on strong, hands-on expertise in modern LLMs and the surrounding ecosystem to ensure they perform reliably at scale.
• You collaborate with our Center of Excellence for Automation to propose, prioritize, and lead initiatives that improve our automation and AI platforms.
• You work cross-functionally with technical experts, product managers, and business leaders to share best practices, document patterns, and enable self-serve automation across the company.
• You define and track the metrics that prove the automation is working, and optimize against them.

Qualifications

• Product Mindset: You have experience in product ownership or agile project management, with a track record of gathering requirements, prioritizing backlogs, and balancing quick wins with long-term scalability.
• Proactive Problem Solver: You don't just take orders; you actively identify bottlenecks and propose scalable, user-centric solutions.
• You have experience with automation/orchestration tools like n8n, Zapier, Make, etc.
• You are comfortable integrating SaaS tools and internal systems via APIs, webhooks, OAuth, and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with prompt engineering and building AI Agents is a plus.
• You are a strong communicator who can explain trade-offs to both business and engineering stakeholders and create concise documentation/playbooks.
• You enjoy working in an international environment and you are fluent in English (C1); good German skills (B2) are a plus.

Benefits

• Create your own work-life balance: You have the flexibility to choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or in Berlin!
• Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: Get top deals for fitness, swimming, yoga and more.
• Mental Well-Being: We support you on your well-being journey with special offerings such as Instahelp, the digital platform for online psychological counseling.
• Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical once you have been part of the team for a certain period!
• Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Buy Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances!
• ‘Deutschlandticket’: We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility.
• Employee Discount: You will receive a monthly coupon for Kaufland.de.
• Free choice of hardware: Mac or Lenovo, it's up to you.
• Boost your growth: Benefit from our online language learning programs, diverse in-house training, and our automated 360-degree feedback.