Amsterdam - In this role as a backend developer you will help create the best experience for delivering news to millions of users. You will join our team that works on creating new home and category pages using a new CMS. The stack is built upon the latest tech and includes Next.js, Typescript, AWS and Kotlin/Java Spring Boot.

WHO YOU ARE

For this position, we expect a senior level of maturity and some years of experience with high traffic websites. Naturally asking questions and proactively giving suggestions to see where you can add value. We’re looking for someone who likes taking initiative with a collaborative attitude.

You have deep knowledge of and experience with:

• Node.js
• Next.js
• TypeScript
• High traffic websites

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

You will build back-end features for our platform while always striving for the best code quality and applying security measures. The features are meant to give editors more tools to enrich the home and category pages they publish. You will also work closely with the Product Owner, our (UX) designers and business stakeholders. Your main tasks are:

• You build it, you run it: designing, coding, testing, deploying, implementing new features and doing day-to-day operations of all our websites and data to our mobile apps.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve the system to make it more robust, scalable and work fluently.
• Share knowledge with our other back-end developers and together make sure our platform grows and moves in the right direction