Engineering Director

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Rotterdam and several other countries. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

The position:

Our team is growing and we are hiring an Engineering Director. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. This role is fully remote within the Netherlands. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

In this role you will:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Preferred:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Pay: €11,000 to €15,000 per month

Compensation and benefits:

• Pension scheme
• Laptop and phone
• Home office allowance
• Bike plan
• 30% ruling for eligible candidates
• Travel allowance

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Waal Online.