Backend developer

Timewax delivers resource planning software to rapidly evolving service organisations. We are looking for an experienced backend developer that wants to join our team to help scale and further innovate our platform. We also want to create more integrations next to our existing ones like Slack, Teams and Outlook.

About the job

We have a stable product that requires little maintenance. We do greenfield development to take this system forward to meet our business goals and maintain our growth. You will be writing code and safeguarding best practices and will have an essential role in designing our new architecture with the rest of the technical team.

These are a few examples of exciting projects you will get to work on:

Designing and building an event-based data architecture to make our platform scale more efficiently and provide a better user experience (e.g., making a new appointment in Outlook instantly pop up in our planning board).
Designing a new data model and picking and transitioning to a new database (e.g., Apache Cassandra or Vitess).
Developing new internal and external APIs to centralize our business logic, allow better integration with external systems and provide updates to our front-end applications in near-real-time (e.g., using GraphQL, SSE).
Build tooling that allows non-technical domain experts to configure and add new integrations, so developers don’t have to (e.g., provide them with a low-code tool or iPaaS).

It’s a joy

“I like that Timewax gives me the space to develop myself. The planning software is a great and challenging product to work on. I definitely feel I’m in the right place here at Timewax.”

Benny van der Bijl

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

The work environment

We are a customer-oriented club and like to provide simple solutions. We are honest with each other and with the customer. If we are unable or unwilling to deliver something, we will say so. We like to act quickly and, above all, to do. Our working environment is further characterized by:

Office in Amsterdam North
Free parking
15 minutes walk from Amsterdam Central
You get a brand new Macbook
We work with Google Workspace, Slack, JIRA and Pipedrive, among others
We work with the OKR method for setting quarterly goals
Daily standups and weekly meetings to discuss progress

If you want to develop yourself in certain areas or if you want to brush up on your knowledge, you can follow some online courses that we will of course pay for.

Our stack

We don’t require experience with a specific programming language or tool, but you get bonus points for familiarity with at least some of the tools in our stack, like:

Kotlin with Spring Boot for backend development
ElasticSearch, MySQL, and Redis for data storage
Kafka as a message queue with Debezium for CDC
Kubernetes on Google Cloud
Functional programming, domain-driven design & test-driven development

If that interests you, you can also work on other parts of our system, like our front-end codebase or mobile applications.

What we look for in developers

We are looking for an experienced backend developer, but we evaluate how you think and communicate rather than the exact buzzwords on your resume. What we look for:

Being able to communicate effectively in English
At least 3, preferably more, years of experience
A good grasp of best practices (e.g., testing)
Experience designing and building API’s & integrations
Sees technical issues as a challenge

If you don’t have experience with JVM, but know another language (e.g., Haskell, Erlang, Swift, F#, OCaml, TypeScript), that is also acceptable. Things that we will be looking for, but are not a hard requirement as long as you are motivated to learn about them:

Being allowed to work in the Netherlands without sponsoring a visum is also preferable. We will consider exceptions to these on-site and visum requirements for genuinely exceptional candidates (e.g., having made open source contributions to tools or libraries in our stack).

Your manager

“I enjoy being a support person for the team. That often means removing distractions so you can focus on getting things done. I’m also passionate about technology. I’m looking forward to sparring with you, to learn from you and to facilitate you.”

Filip de Waard

MANAGER DEVELOPMENT

The team

Since COVID we work a lot from home, but we are looking for people that want to come to the office in Amsterdam at least once a week. We have a team with:

We have a small technical assignment as part of our interview process. The result is reviewed in a call or in-person meeting at the office with a few team members, which is an excellent opportunity for you to get an impression of your potential future colleagues.

Want to know more?

Reach out to us, we look forward to have a conversation!