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Through designing, developing, and testing new features, or improving the scalability and security of our platform: you’ll be managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, while finding yourself fully immersed in an engaging scaleup culture.\nTricks of the trade\nOwnership: Take ownership of projects from concept to delivery, aligning technical solutions with business goals\nProblem solving: You see a problem, you tackle it with technology - with your users always in mind\nCollaboration: Collaborate on cross-team initiative involving complex systems to ensure smooth flows in our warehouses\n Our Tech: Java 21/25 (Spring 6 with Spring Boot 3.5, Reactor, Immutables, Maven), RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Git, Docker, AWS, Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Datadog, Python 3.x\nWe’re looking for\nYou have a Master’s Degree (in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field) or equivalent experience\nYou have a product mindset and treat technology as a means to an end, owning and solving business problems by choosing the best-fitting technical solutions and tools for each challenge\nYou have 2-5 years of professional experience with Java and have a profound understanding of back-end development\nYour English skills are on point (no Dutch required)\nYou have experience with AI tooling and are comfortable with agentic engineering\nYou're based in or happy to relocate to the Netherlands*\n* We work from our office in Amsterdam. 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