About the job

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Founded in 1993, we now have 3,900 employees.

Overview

de Jong Digital is hiring a Backend Engineer to work remotely from the Netherlands. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You can work from home anywhere in the Netherlands. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Day to day

Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Qualifications

3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Benefits

Pension scheme
8% holiday allowance
25 annual leave days
Laptop and phone

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at de Jong Digital.