Backend Engineer

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Genuinely surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from the interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at New10 can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Your new company

We are New10, a financial service scale-up initiated by ABN AMRO Bank. At New10 we believe that business financing should be easy and accessible. Our purpose is to empower businesses to access the funding they need. Though our mission is simple, our ambition is bold: become the #1 engine powering North-West European SMEs. 

We are on a quest to transform the financing ecosystem by using the speed and innovative strength of a fintech with the expertise and funding of a bank to deliver a fast, simple and clear financing experience to SME businesses. To support our growth towards this ambition, we’re looking for a Medior / Senior Backend Engineer.

Requirements

Your new role

• You are someone who can quickly adapt to new situations, with a mindset of continuous learning and improvement.
• You are genuinely interested in, and curious about everything – from new technologies and way of working to our customers and their context.
• You are driven by data. You embrace creativity and enjoy applying these traits while problem-solving and generating solutions. 
• You are open-minded, cherish diversity and jump at the opportunity to build a great team together. You are a team player and you know that synergy pays off.
• You are a role model to follow in terms of collaboration, accountability, ownership, persistence, integrity, respect and care.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Extensive experience with Typescript/Node.js and Python
• Sufficient frontend capabilities to share the light FE load with the rest of the, mainly BE, team
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB
• Familiarity with serverless architectures
• Strong experience with designing, managing and working with REST APIs
• In addition to technical skills, the successful applicant should possess durable skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, (self-)leadership, organisation, time management, presentation skills.

Some key characteristics that describe you:

• You just love to code and improve every day
• You have years of experience with fast-paced applications and products
• You strive for clean maintainable code and know how to test thoroughly
• You’ve already shifted left on security and quality
• You work comfortably in an agile environment
• You’re pragmatic and have a history of getting things launched
• You’re a self-starter who takes the initiative to seek product improvements

 What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate on architecture, technical design and the building of applications so that together with fellow software engineers you help to improve the team’s competency
• Produce clean, stable, fast and well-architected code
• Own the quality of the code you produce by taking measures to build it in and keep it high. This includes writing unit, integration and E2E tests
• Own and operate the backend of New10 together with your teammates by rotating through on-call incident management shifts
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies
• Closely collaborate and ensure alignment with the rest of the team – frontend, Salesforce, PO, business analyst, UX designer and data analyst

Benefits

Our New10 culture

At New10 we put our people first. We offer an open, collaborative and supportive working environment and guarantee every New10er that they’ll have a tremendous opportunity for long-term growth and learning. Between the 182 of us, from 35+ different nationalities, we are: 

• Entrepreneurs ourselves, thinking on our feet and making sure the right things happen
• Genuinely interested and curious, looking to deeply understand our customers and their context
• Driven by data, embracing creativity and exciting technologies
• Open-minded, bringing fresh perspectives and jumping at the opportunity to build an effective team together 

 We offer

• The unique opportunity to grow with a fast-growing fintech scale-up backed by one of the largest banks in the Netherlands 
• Gross monthly salary between €6404- €8230 (based on 36 hours) including 8% Holiday Allowance and 11% Benefit Budget
• Working-From-Home Allowance, and €1.000,- Annual Development Budget
• Great pensions scheme
• Private and Business use of the NS (Dutch Railway) Business Card and Phone Subscription 
• Apple gear for work
• 5 weeks of paid holiday and the possibility to buy more holidays using your Benefit Budget 
• Hybrid way of working, balanced with office life and in-person events at our fantastic offices near Weesperplein with table football & events like summer parties, wine tastings, hackathons, winter sports and much more
• The possibility of working from abroad

Interested?

Please submit your CV and Cover Letter via the Application button. If your profile looks like a match, we’ll invite you for a first informal conversation with one of our team. 

Here’s what you can expect about our hiring process:

• Step 1: Introduction call with the hiring manager (30 mins)
• Step 2: Experience Interview (60 mins)
• Step 3: Culture interview (60 mins)
• Step 4: Technical case study
• Step 5: Final job offer
• Step 6: Awesome onboarding 

Please note that the successful applicant must reside in The Netherlands prior to the starting date. Additionally, due to banking and compliance requirements, this role requires a background check (which we will organise) to be passed. New10 is part of ABN AMRO and will therefore, also act as a visa sponsor.