European precious metals retailer with live trading and e-commerce at scale
Kettner-Edelmetalle operates a precious metals trading platform serving retail and institutional buyers across Europe, handling millions of requests through a PHP + Laravel + Vue stack backed by SingleStore and Elasticsearch. Their active project list—live trading, savings plans, e-commerce backend, real-time financial content—reveals a business scaling from traditional bullion retail into digital-first trading infrastructure. Pain points around extreme traffic load and real-time platform scaling map directly to engineering gaps: only 1 active engineering hire suggests the company is hitting infrastructure limits with a small core team.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Accounting, Head Accounting
Kettner-Edelmetalle is a privately held precious metals dealer based in Villingen Schwenningen, Germany, founded in 2011. The company has grown into one of Europe's largest bullion retailers, offering over 1,000 products across gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper in the form of coins, bars, collector pieces, and investment-grade premiums. The business model spans retail e-commerce, live spot-price trading, and B2B wholesale partnerships with international minting houses. Current operational focus includes digitizing procurement and accounting workflows, managing supply chain resilience, and scaling backend infrastructure to handle peak trading volume.
Laravel, PHP, Nuxt, and Vue on the frontend; SingleStore and Elasticsearch for data; Redis for caching; hosted on AWS. Also uses DATEV for accounting and Adobe Premiere Pro for video content production.
1 active engineering role open. The company is also hiring across marketing (4), finance (3), sales (3), support (2), and product (1). All roles are in Germany, with a mid/senior hiring mix indicating focus on experience-level fills.
Live trading platform and real-time price infrastructure; e-commerce backend scaling; savings plan products; digital accounting and procurement automation; strategic partnerships with international minting wholesalers; daily financial news and interactive broadcast content.
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