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# Software Engineer II

- **Company:** Brookwood Selection
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €18,373.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Continuous Delivery, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Noise Reduction, Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, AWS Lambda, Amazon Relational Database Service, Integration Tests, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Code Restructuring
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.nl/job/nl84a3e28973beb92642ffb6dd59fc4c96/eaa

## About the Role

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

## Description

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.