European fashion e-commerce platform with B2B commerce infrastructure
ABOUT YOU operates a dual-layer business: a consumer-facing fashion marketplace with 13+ million active customers, and SCAYLE, a cloud-native commerce platform serving ~300 enterprise retailers. The tech stack reveals a PHP/Laravel-based monolith (Vue, TypeScript frontend) deployed on AWS with Kubernetes, complemented by Go services and GraphQL — a pragmatic architecture handling high-volume API calls and real-time personalization. Active pain points around performance optimization, financial data integration, and ETL platform building signal they're scaling data infrastructure faster than tooling maturity.
Notable leadership hires: Engineering Lead, Product Lead
ABOUT YOU Group operates three integrated business units: the consumer brand (aboutyou.com and mobile app) offering ~750,000 items across ~4,000 fashion brands to 13+ million European customers; SCAYLE GmbH, a B2B commerce platform serving ~300 online stores under a SaaS license model; and SCAYLE Payments, a payment services provider licensed by German financial regulators in October 2024. The company is headquartered in Hamburg and employs 1,001–5,000 people. Current hiring focuses on engineering, marketing, and product roles in Germany and the United Kingdom, with expansion into key accounts and new markets underway.
Core stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue, TypeScript, AWS (ECS, CloudFormation), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes. Also uses Go, gRPC, GraphQL, Datadog, Cloudflare, BigQuery, Looker Studio for analytics and infrastructure.
SCAYLE GmbH is ABOUT YOU's B2B subsidiary offering a cloud-based enterprise commerce platform. ~300 online stores use SCAYLE, including Harrods, Manchester United, Deichmann, Fielmann, and FC Bayern.
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