Job Title: Medior Backend Engineer
We are seeking a skilled Medior Backend Engineer to join our teams working on Editorial systems and build technology based on the AWS Cloud with Fargate containers, Lambda's, MongoDB.
Our backend services are built using Java or Typescript, while we use React and other modern technologies in the frontend. We emphasize that all team members are multi-skilled, allowing them to contribute across different areas of development.
You will work with a small team experienced in remote pairing, making technology choices, and collaborating with an architect to ensure cross-domain and team decisions support rapid iteration on our products.
About Us
Our organization supports hundreds of journalists from major brands publishing thousands of articles on our products such as AD, HLN, and de Volkskrant.
To publish digital articles, we provide journalists with an article editor that enables them to publish content to an article display detail ensuring consistent formatting.
With our teams for digital article publishing and display, we build a reliable, collaborative, and predictable article editing environment.
About the Team
Our team is diverse in profiles, but unified in mission and goal. As a team, you are responsible for designing, building, testing, and delivering software, living by the baseline 'you build it, you run it'.
Your Key Strengths
* Must-have knowledge: Amazon Web Services, Java 21, database technologies (relational and document-based), REST, Spring.
* +4 years of hands-on experience in the above technologies.
* Front End stack(s): React, Typescript, HTML, CSS.
* CI/CD knowledge: Maven/Gradle, docker, ECS, fargate.
* Familiarity with DDD, SOLID principles, Clean Code, TDD/BDD, and Clean Architecture.
* Agile mindset and experience with Scrum or other agile methodologies.
* Curious and open-minded.
* Critical thinker always looking for 'why' things are done.
* Passionate about development and focused on quality.
* Team-oriented and focused on collaboration.
You thrive in a high-tech environment that continuously innovates, such as our switched-to-AWS-cloud setup.
Location
This vacancy is for our office in Antwerp where you will spend at least one day a week.