Graduate Software Engineer

Company overview:

Clients are mostly mid-sized companies in South Holland. Style guide reviews are part of every project.

The role:

The Graduate Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in Rotterdam. We engage team members in Spain as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.

You'll need:

• 1-2 years of professional software development experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• 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.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Perks and benefits:

Rate: $2,900 - $3,300/month

• Paid time off.
• Company laptop.
• Long-term engagement.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Koster Academy B.V..