Software Engineer II

Overview Join a product-focused engineering team delivering software that supports large-scale, customer-facing platforms. As a Software Engineer II, you’ll build and improve services end-to-end-from designing and implementing solutions to operating them in production-while collaborating closely with product and engineering peers. You’ll help maintain a high bar for reliability, test automation, security, and sustainable delivery, and you’ll contribute to continuous improvement in both code and ways of working.

strong soft skills: high accountability, high autonomy, great communication skills

• Java
• AWS
• Experience with On Prem -> AWS migrations
• Kafka, Cassandra
• Experience with AWS managed services: Dynamo, RDS, Lambdas
• Understanding of best OPS practices: monitoring, alerting, noise reduction
• System design

• JS / Type Script -Experience with architecture of new product, * Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, APIs, debugging, performance awareness)

• Experience building production-grade applications and writing readable, reusable, maintainable code
• Solid automated testing practices (unit/integration tests) and a quality-first mindset
• Ability to refactor and simplify existing codebases using appropriate patterns and standard libraries
• Experience supporting services in production: monitoring, metrics, incident response, and follow-up improvements
• Familiarity with end-to-end service ownership, including documentation (e.g., runbooks) and operational readiness
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with continuous delivery approaches and safe rollout techniques (e.g., incremental delivery, feature flags, experimentation)
• Exposure to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling, or platform/service development
• Basic architectural guidance experience (evaluating options, trade-offs, and fit for non-functional requirements)
• Participation in post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis, leading to lasting reliability improvements
• Experience mentoring or providing technical leadership within a team setting

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent practical experience)
• Typically 3-5 years of relevant professional software engineering experience

6 months initially - 40 hours per week - €106 EUR per hour - (VAT is paid on top of this), 2 days onsite per week in the Amsterdam office