Back-end Developer

Your enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge are what pulls you out of bed in the morning. You’re looking for a career opportunity that allows you to prove yourself and your skills, day after day. You want your experience and capabilities to have a life-changing impact on other people. You are the Software Engineer we are looking for. This job is open at Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Heraklion (Greece), the benefits will differ according to the location.

ORTEC is leveraging data & mathematics to create value for businesses and society at large. In today’s rapidly changing, complex and data-driven world, it is key that organizations become adaptive and continuously optimized. Using data in a smart way makes business more efficient, adaptive, effective, and sustainable. Our data-driven decision support leads to better results in virtually any business value area.

Your challenges

As our Software Engineer you will thrive on building, maintaining, and improving our core products and services which form the solution suites for several business areas. Some of the challenges you will face are implementing business logic, analyzing and solving issues reported by our customers, understanding and improving our data model using an SQL server database, making sure our core products can also be accessed by web applications through API’s, upholding security principles. You work with a multi-disciplinary international team, in an Agile development environment, and together you are responsible for the development of new functionalities, maintenance and support of the products and services.

A developer with experience working on backend services and infrastructure. You agree that the main role of a software engineer is to leverage technology to add value to the final product. You have an understanding of the following technical aspects of software development:

• architectural design patterns (micro-services, event-driven…)
• Extensive knowledge and experience on NodeJS
• data models and how they map onto the appropriate database (mongo, mysql)
• programming styles, OO vs Functional, static typing
• unit testing
• CI/CD and containerization
• Kubernetes based cloud infrastructure (such as Azure)
• monitoring and observability

We will help you to thrive in your field of expertise. We offer development programs, tailored to your individual needs and function requirements, including opportunities to attend courses and seminars. We offer challenging, practical hands-on experience with opportunities to work abroad. We operate in a flat organizational structure that keeps communication lines short. The atmosphere is open, informal, cooperative and positive. We employ over 1000 people in the Netherlands (HQ), Belgium, Germany, France, the U.K., Romania, Italy, the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Poland, Denmark and Singapore. Visit our website www.ortec.com to learn more about our solutions and clients’ experiences. Please do not use this vacancy as an acquisition opportunity.