Backend Software Engineer

Welcome to SkillLab

At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has equal career opportunities. We enable and lead a radical change - a focus on skills instead of titles and degrees. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient labor markets. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 25+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.

Your opportunity

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our development team in Amsterdam. Your initial focus will be in back-end development of a Rest API in Ruby on Rails backed by Postgres and deploying as containers orchestrated by Kubernetes in several cloud and bare-metal environments.

We are a tightly integrated team, so you will also have the opportunity to work with our React/Typescript front-end and our machine-learning codebases.

Your team

You will join our engineering team as the new Backend Software Engineer. The engineering team is comprised of three small squads. You will report to Yasser who is one of team leads and leads the Rocket squad. The other two team leads are Lala and Aaron. Aaron is also the Head of Engineering at Skilllab. Other SkillLabers who make the engineering team awesome are:

• Barry, Nubar and Refai as our backend engineers.
• Ivana, Kilani, Ibraheem, Nouraldin and Mojtaba as front-end engineers.
• Gaspar as our full-stack engineer and domain lead.
• Luiza and Nathany who take care of our QA processes.
• Hamza is managing our DevOps work.

We are proud of the people we collaborate with and excited to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!

Your impact

• You will collaborate closely with our growing team of UX researchers, designers, data scientists, QA and DevOps engineers to develop our core product that helps connect people to jobs based on their skills
• You will write maintainable, performant and secure code that needs minimal improvements after QA ( Make it work, make it correct, make it fast)
• You will review your teammates' code in a way that allows other developers to improve their code
• You will positively contribute to our code-base beyond implementing product features, keeping out technical debt in check and proposing new techniques and technologies
• You will write unit and integration tests as well as collaborate with QA to create realistic acceptance testing plans and simulated data

Requirements

Your skills

• You have 3-5 years of experience as a web application backend developer focusing on Ruby on Rails
• You have experience with Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes and adjacent tech
• You are able to take a feature from business requirements to secure, performant implementation in collaboration with a small team
• You have a learning mindset and bring curiosity to tackle new coding challenges
• You work collaboratively in an engineering team and are empathic towards our end-users
• You are excited about our social mission to empower everyone to have a pathway to employment

Extra awesome

• You have experience with some front-end development work and specifically React/Typescript.

Salary & start-date

• We use a salary benchmark for the Dutch high-tech sector to set your salary based on your experience. We expect that the annual gross salary for the experience we are looking for ranges from 55k-65k Euro per year.
• We accept applications on a rolling basis, and we envision a start date as soon as possible.

Benefits

• You will enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year (20 days as the statutory minimum holiday entitlement in the Netherlands plus 5 extra days from SkillLab).
• You can work flexibly both from our office in Amsterdam or remotely within the Netherlands. You can also extend your holiday stay in a different country and work from abroad for a limited period of time.
• You will get an extensive relocation support to move to Amsterdam including visa sponsorship, 30% ruling application, your plane tickets, covered real estate agent fees etc.
• You will have a personal learning budget to invest in your professional development.
• You will have access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
• You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Alleo app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
• You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, Netherlands etc.

What else to know?

• This is how we lead tech projects at SkillLab: [https://lala-rustamli.medium.com/leading-technical-projects-the-skilllab-way-717a6c5ac268>
• Read more about our compensation framework: [https://skilllab.io/en-us/news/skilllab-compensation>
• Get some tips for your interview with SkillLab: [https://skilllab.io/en-us/news/skilllab-life-tips-for-you-interview>