Senior Software Engineer

About Maqqie

We are Maqqie, one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands. Our mission is to create a digital labor market that works better for everyone. We currently achieve this by offering an online solution for contracting and paying employees. For all types of contracts, from permanent to temporary, from employee to temporary worker and freelancer. Do you want to help us change the labor market? Then apply for the position of Senior Backend Engineer (32-40 hours).

About the Role

As Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our backend systems and ensuring their scalability, reliability, and performance. By demonstrating expertise in code fluency, software design, and architecture design you will serve as technical lead for various projects. The role involves fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, mentoring, and coaching junior engineers and contributing to hiring processes. You will work in cross-functional teams with other departments such as Product or Operations to meet our organizational goals.

This means that you will be responsible for:

• Design & Delivery: You will design and deliver robust, scalable, and secure solutions and act as technical lead. It is your job to define and deliver well-scoped milestones for projects in collaboration with our Product Managers

• Optimize Performance: Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications, identifying bottlenecks and providing solutions. By adapting new technologies and/or best practices you continuously improve the quality of our applications

• Product Expertise and Customer Impact: Actively consider customer needs and leverage input from product stakeholders to determine the right technical solutions. Ensure work has the greatest customer impact and aligns with business and team goals

• Collaboration: Work closely with other Engineers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the Tech team

You will be working within the Technology department. Tech exists out of 15 engineers divided over 3 teams. You will report to Luc Klaassen, our Head of Engineering.

What do you need to be successful?

We think you need to following qualities for the role:

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software

• Technical Skills:

  • Kotlin and/or Java, Typescript and Vue

  • Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker

  • CI/CD: Gitlab Pipelines and Jenkins

  • Databases: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL

  • Build tools: Gradle and/or Maven

• Project leadership: Strong leadership skills with the ability to serve as a technical lead for projects

• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Don’t exactly fit the profile, but do you think the role is perfect for you? Let us know. We are open to discussing the possibilities.

What do we offer?

Nothing comes for free. We understand this better than anyone. That's why we offer you:

• The opportunity to work on the labor market of the future at one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands

• A gross salary of € 4500,- to € 6500,- per month based on 40 hours per week and depending on your knowledge and experience level

• 8% holiday pay

• 8% pension contribution that you can use at your discretion

• 25 vacation days (based on 40 hours per week)

• A training budget of €2000 per year

• Hybrid working

• A laptop

• Good secondary employment conditions, including a flexible budget of €40 per month in Alleo to use for sports, beauty, investment, and more

• Outings and drinks from our active staff association, with delicious snacks

Good to Know

Creating the labor market of the future starts with us. We spend a lot of time and attention on our internal organization. You will work in a young and ambitious team. The average age at Maqqie is 33 years. We work hard together but also laugh a lot. We focus on your growth and development. Therefore, from day one, you will have the freedom to do your thing. We know better than anyone that your ideas work best when you have the space for them.

At the beginning of 2024, we moved to the centre of Rotterdam. Our office is located on the Coolsingel opposite the City Hall and is only 5 minutes from Rotterdam Central. You can join the group lunch, and there are plenty of dining and drinking options around the office. We are also a hybrid company. There are possibilities to work from the office, home, or temporarily from abroad.

In 2025, we aim to make the contracting and payment of employees even easier. All laws, regulations, collective agreements, and wishes around employment make the deployment and payment of employees incredibly complex. At Maqqie, we are making this more efficient step by step, and where possible, we automate it. By the end of this year, we want to be the payment engine of the labor market: providing every type of employee (employee, freelancer, temporary worker) with a contract, hours registration, support, and payment. A great challenge for which we can use your help. Additionally, we continuously improve our product and our brand.

Okay, sounds good, what now?

Great that you are interested in this role! We would love to receive your motivation letter and resume. The process is as follows:

1. We select the best-suited candidates based on the motivation letters and resumes

2. Then there is a phone interview with the hiring manager

3. Are we both excited after the conversation? Then you will be invited to our office for 2 interviews: Experience and Culture. Both interviews have a different focus to see if you match the role and our organizational culture & values

4. Are we a match? Then you will have terms of employment discussion and receive an offer, subject to a reference check

5. Is everything good? Then we go for it and sign the contract 🎉

Note: A Certificate of Good Conduct (Dutch VOG) is part of the screening process. You must submit a VOG form within 3 months of starting.

Do you have any questions about this vacancy?

Contact Eline Mimpen via +31 (0)6 5920 0132. Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.