Software Engineer II

The position:

We're looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team. This is a remote role. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Our Billing team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote within the Netherlands. The team meets in The Hague once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll be doing:

Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates. Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners. Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback. Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic. Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk. Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

Minimum qualifications:

2+ years of professional software development experience. Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests. Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI. Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line. Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

Bonus points:

Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

What we offer:

Salary range: €7,100 to €8,300 per month

Pension scheme. 8% holiday allowance. 30% ruling for eligible candidates. Bike plan. 25 annual leave days. Travel allowance.

Company overview:

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.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Netherlands.

Start: Immediately.

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