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Join a dynamic international team as a Back End Engineer and directly enhance the digital experience of world-renowned brands
Overview
Salary
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Location
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands,
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In-person- Amsterdam Netherlands
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary: Become a pivotal part of an agile, innovative team that thrives on teamwork and is driven to deliver an exceptional digital experience for famous brands. Embrace the collaborative spirit in a company that values engineering excellence, offering you the chance to take ownership and contribute to a scalable, high-performing product.
- Translate complex business requirements into well-architected solutions.
- Develop clean, scalable, and maintainable code that makes an impact.
- Write comprehensive tests and engage in thorough peer reviews and testing.
- Proactively set up monitoring and implement improvements, ensuring service stability.
- Document solutions clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Champion engineering best practices within your team.
- 5+ years of experience in Back End Engineering, ideally in an international startup.
- Expertise in PHP, Symfony, NodeJS, and Kubernetes application development.
- Proficient in microservices, GraphQL, and Rest APIs design and maintenance.
- Knowledge of message brokers and queue systems (e.g., Redis, Kafka).
- Experience with various data storage solutions (e.g., DynamoDB, MySQL).
- Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design principles.
- Committed to rigorous testing practices.
- Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.
Your impact
You will work with talented people from all around the world and use Agile development principles. We love to help each other and our power comes from the team game. We are a hardcore Agile team, always iterating and striving for a better, faster and scalable product. Here you will be developing features and services that will directly impact our experience of many famous brands. Along with code, we have hands-on experience with infrastructure.
Your responsibilities
- Understanding business requirements and design/architecture solutions accordingly
- Writing clean, maintainable, optimised and scalable code
- Writing comprehensive unit/integration tests and actively participating in peer reviews/testing
- Taking ownership of the existing/new modules/projects, ensuring stability
- Setting up monitoring and implementing improvements proactively
- Being the owner of your service’s availability
- Providing clear documentation to both business and tech teams
- Promoting engineering excellence and best practices within the team
What you'll bring to the team:
- 5+ years' experience as a Back End Engineer, ideally within an international start-up company
- Proficiency in crafting applications capable of seamless scalability, architecting robust frameworks
- Fluent in PHP, particularly Symfony, and NodeJS - you're a pro with building applications in Kubernetes
- Expertise in designing and maintaining microservices as well as GraphQL and Rest APIs
- Understanding of message broker and queue systems, from Redis to Kafka
- Extensive experience across various data storage platforms, from DynamoDB to MySQL
- Advocate for the principles of Domain Driven Design, crafting systems with clarity and purpose
- Well-versed in the art of testing, from unit tests to integration tests, ensuring the reliability and functionality of systems.
- Fluency in English - other languages are a plus!
What we offer you for being O-mazing:
- A competitive, market-rate salary (incl. holiday allowance) and a generous SAR package
- 25 days paid holiday per year - plus a day off on your birthday and 8 weeks Workation option!
- An open, spacious, plant-filled office on the waterside in the Houthavens
- Delicious bi-weekly office lunches - prepared by our lovely Hub & Culture Manager, Denise
- Mental and physical health support via a OneFit gym subscription discount and free, unlimited access to OpenUp
- Mac laptop and more handy tech - including setting up your home office via Workwize
- And, of course, an incredible 35% Otrium employee discount!
