Java Backend Engineer

As our Java Backend Engineer, you’ll be working on a modern, cloud-native registration system that runs in a Kubernetes environment. The system will underpin not only .nl, but also the other top-level domains that we operate. You’ll be part of a software engineering team with members in the Netherlands and Canada, and you’ll also help with implementation of the system for new clients. So you’ll be a key figure in keeping our backend and our infrastructure stable and secure.

Here's what you'll be doing:

• Writing and maintaining backend Java code

• Managing and improving Kubernetes deployments with Helm

• Working on CI/CD pipelines and observability

• Solving technical puzzles

• Focusing on stability and security

• Working as part of a team with members in the Netherlands and Canada

Our core values of customer focus, trustworthiness, innovation, independence and professionalism strike a chord with you. And you want to keep learning and developing. If that sounds like you, you'll fit right in! Because we allow people to be themselves. You'll also have:

• At least 3 years' experience as a Java backend engineer

• Preferably experience with Kubernetes (CNCF CKAD) and Helm

• Preferably experience with containerisation, CI/CD and monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana

• Ideally, experience with AWS or an AWS qualification (but if you don’t have either, don’t worry: SIDN will give you the opportunity to get a qualification)

• Sense of responsibility

• Ability to communicate smoothly in Dutch and English

For us, it's all about balance. Balance between hard work and relaxation, between performance and reward, between your ambitions and ours, between an inspiring office environment and the convenience of working from home, and of course between professional and private life. We utilise the latest technologies for easy collaboration, remotely, physically and in hybrid forms. We also make sure that our people have well-equipped home workstations, plus access to an office space with everything they need to get together, collaborate and inspire each another. If you want to go running or visit granny during office hours, we're okay with that. As long as you live up to your professional responsibilities, we'll work out between us exactly how and when you do your work. And we're not fans of formal appraisal. What really matters is year-round personal development. Where you take the lead. Helping us to consolidate our status as a major, unique player in the internet technology sector.

Pay and other benefits

What's in it for you? First, ample opportunity for growth and skills development. After all, you'll be helping us take our IT set-up in a whole new direction. On-the-job growth will go hand-in-hand with training-based personal development -- for which we have a generous budget! There's an attractive benefits package as well:

• Gross monthly salary of up to €5,700, depending on professional experience

• Holiday pay of 8 per cent, plus a thirteenth salary payment

• A variable collective bonus of up to 4 per cent

• An attractive extra bonus if you introduce us to a new colleague

• A basic holiday allowance of 25 days, plus scope for building up to 13 days' occasional leave entitlement, if you work full time

• A pension with ABP, with an 80 per cent contribution from SIDN

• A business rail card if you come to work by public transport

• A travel allowance if you come to work using your own transport

• A PluralSight licence and the opportunity to acquire other certificates

• A daily home working allowance for every day that you work from home

• A complete, healthy home workstation

• €55 a month (net) for your home broadband

• €25 a month (gross) contribution to your health insurance

• Additional paternity leave on full pay

• An optional cycle lease scheme, where SIDN covers 50 per cent of the lease cost, up to a maximum of €60 (gross) per month

• €500 a year to donate to a good cause of your choice

• Your own .nl domain name and hosting package

• Professional coaching and budget coaching

• A relocation allowance if taking the job means moving house

Everything above is for a full-time role.

The selection procedure includes screening, which involves obtaining a Certificate of Good Behaviour (similar to a criminal record check), and performing reference and integrity checks.