Senior Backend Engineer - Core/Service

The job
We are looking for a number of Backend Engineers to join our business, who comes from a PHP or JavaScript background and has expertise in infrastructure, CI/CD, JavaScript/TypeScript and GraphQL. Your role will be to develop, enhance, and maintain our platform and play a pivotal role in developing our product. From mid-level, through to Lead, we are looking to hire great talent at our location in Utrecht, The Netherlands or remote.
Responsibilities and Requirements
- Designing and developing our platform to scale and expand into new markets
- Development of our backend applications and microservices
- Designing and modelling our data infrastructure
- Integration of 3rd party services, such as search and e-commerce platforms
- Debugging, root-cause analysis, bug fixing
Requirements
- 3+ years of development experience in a product-driven environment
- Native level of fluency in English (spoken and written)
- You like to work independent but in a highly motivated and passionate team
- Experience with scrum development, measuring results with a data-driven approach, and incorporating feedback of customers
- Working knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, Redis, PHP
- Working knowledge of Git (and GitHub)
- GraphQL experience
- Experience in working with microservices architecture
- You enjoy working on a mission-critical product
- Strong collaboration and communication skills. As a team player, you enjoy both mentoring and being mentored by your co-workers.
Nice-to-have bonus points
- Working knowledge of REST API's
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of Neo4j or Cypher
- Working knowledge of cloud-provider deployments (AWS, Fastly)
- Good level of fluency in Dutch (spoken and written)
Benefits
- A challenging and responsible position at an innovative, fast-growing B2B SAAS company with growth opportunities
- Be part of a motivated and passionate team with a lot of experience
- A MacBook with all the hardware needed to work properly
- Every day a nice lunch and a Friday afternoon drink
- A nice workplace at our office in Utrecht, a 2-minute walk from Utrecht Central Station
- We are a member of the Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile community
- Flexibility with working remote and at the office
- Good salary and secondary benefits
- Vacations and vacation pay
- A team that supports you in achieving your personal development goals
- Every quarter a nice company meeting, including good food and drinks
- Space to share your own input and actively think along with the development team
- The job is for 40 hours per week. Fewer hours per week and a flexible work schedule are negotiable.
- We are an open, inclusive, and forward-thinking company. Everyone is welcome to apply.