Software Engineer

at  The RIPE NCC

Hybrid: from home and our office at Amsterdam Central station
Full-time: based on 37.5 hours per week (working part-time is possible)
Salary: up to EUR 80.000 plus excellent secondary benefits (see below)
Important: you should be living in the Netherlands or willing to relocate
At the RIPE NCC, we develop software with a significant impact on the core of the Internet. As a Software Engineer, you’ll become part of a diverse and talented team and work on projects that contribute to this cause. Are you a Software Engineer and want to become part of our team? Then this is the place for you!
You will be developing software that allows our members (ISPs, governments, universities, etc.) to manage their Internet number resources (IPs and ASNs), develop applications for our internal users to support our members, and also work on services that are fundamental to the operational aspects of the Internet.

• Be involved in defining pragmatic and maintainable technical solutions for challenging problems.
• Lead and provide clear directions in software projects.
• Develop new features working on back-end and front-end.
• Maintain and extend our existing services.
• Write, test, and deploy your code.
• Work with our DevOps engineers to maintain and improve our CI/CD pipelines.
• After a year, provide 24/7 stand-by shifts once every 4-6 weeks (extra compensation in addition to your regular salary).
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers from a content perspective.

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or in a related engineering field) OR a minimum of five years of professional work experience in software engineering.
• Experience with JVM.
• Experience working on the full stack, including infrastructure, back-end and front-end
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Strong communication and team-player skills. Our ideal new colleague is eager to learn and likes to share knowledge with others.
• Fluency in English.