Senior Back-End Developer

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.

Role overview:

Looking for a Senior Back-End Developer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. 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. This role is fully remote within the Netherlands. Few meetings, lots of written updates.

Your responsibilities:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

Skills and experience:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Bonus points:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Compensation and benefits:

• Pension scheme.
• 25 annual leave days.
• Training budget.
• 13th month salary.
• Home office allowance.
• Bike plan.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Netherlands.

Start: Within 30 days.

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