European e-commerce platform modernizing legacy retail infrastructure
hygi.de operates a 500+ million-product e-commerce business across Europe serving millions of B2B and B2C customers for hygiene and cleaning supplies. The tech stack reveals a modern frontend (Vue, React, Webpack, Vite) layered over a data platform built on Spark, Kafka, and Delta Lake—a pattern typical of companies mid-migration from monolithic retail systems. Active hiring is concentrated in engineering (15 roles) with accelerating velocity, and project pipeline focuses on shop architecture refactoring, headless conversion, and international expansion, indicating a company working to decouple legacy systems while scaling geography.
Notable leadership hires: Backend Team Lead
hygi.de is a Germany-based e-commerce platform specializing in hygiene and cleaning products, operating since 2004. The business serves over 2.8 million customers across Europe, offering a catalog of more than 140,000 SKUs from 850 brands and 500 manufacturers. Scale and legacy complexity drive the engineering roadmap: the company is actively refactoring its monolithic webshop architecture, transitioning to headless design patterns, and building real-time data ingestion and AI-driven analytics capabilities. Current focus spans platform modernization, international marketplace expansion, and reliability engineering.
Frontend: Vue, React, CSS/SCSS, Webpack, Vite. Backend: REST, GraphQL, Python, Scala, PostgreSQL. Data: Apache Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, Hadoop, OpenSearch. Testing: Cypress, Playwright, Vitest.
Shop architecture refactoring, headless commerce conversion, real-time data ingestion, international marketplace expansion, CI/CD pipeline modernization, and AI-driven insights generation.
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