Medior Java Developer
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Job description
At XITE, the Content Technology Team keeps our music video catalog running smoothly, from ingestion to distribution across our interactive app, FAST channels and linear TV. You'll join a small, cross-functional team of three engineers and two product team members, working closely with our music team (around 10 people) to deliver the best music video content experience in Europe and North America.
This is a role where you take pride in well-maintained systems, not high-volume daily throughput. Our pipelines handle a catalog of hundreds of thousands of music videos, but once built and stable, they largely run themselves. Your job is to keep them that way, improve them thoughtfully, and build internal tooling that makes life easier for a small, specialized music team.
Our techstack
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Backend services are written in Java using spring boot framework.
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Several databases like Postgres, Mongo.
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Infrastructure like Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch.
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Microservice based architecture hosted in Google Cloud.
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Frontend services are written in React framework.
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Fully automated CI pipelines.
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Version control using Git., * Build & maintain our in-house developed Media Asset Management System Maintain the pipeline that processes and delivers our music video catalog, keeping it reliable, observable, and easy to maintain.
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Develop curation tools for our music team Create the tools our music team rely on every day to manage and program content.
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Enrich our catalog with smart metadata Design solutions that collect and improve metadata, powering our recommendation engine and playlist curation.
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Contribute to technical projects end-to-end Share ownership from requirements and design, implement, test, and launch.
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Engineer responsibly Build reliable internal tools and APIs used daily by a small, specialized team. Focus on maintainability, usability, and code quality, and contribute to making the platform more robust over time.
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Work in a close-knit, collaborative team Share ownership across projects, work across teams, and help shape how and what we build. You will work closely with experienced backend developers, giving you the opportunity to learn and grow in your role.
Requirements
- 3+ to 5 years of experience with Java Spring and a solid understanding of backend development.
- Familiarity working with microservice architectures, ideally in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- You have strong English communication skills (Dutch not required).
- You live in the Netherlands as we would like to see you at least three times per week in our office.
- Experience with modern JavaScript ecosystems (TypeScript, React) is a plus.
Benefits & conditions
- Apply: Send us your application and we will contact you.
- First Interview (Online): Our recruiter will contact you for a first online interview. During this interview you can ask all your questions about the company.
- Second Interview: You will be meeting with the hiring manager, where you will discuss the role and team more in depth.
- Technical assignment (home): You will be provided with a technical assignment to do at home.
- Technical Interview: You will be meeting with 2 developers of the team, going through your technical assignment and you can ask questions as well.
- Final Interview: An interview with one of our Management Team members.
- Reference check: We ask you for 2 references that we can give a call and ask a few questions as a part of our hiring process.
- Offer: Hopefully with our offer, we can welcome you to the team of XITE!
