Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

About Wehkamp
Wehkamp believes in combining fashion and lifestyle in a smart way with online technology and a great shopping experience, in order to offer a relevant and inspiring platform to its customers and partners. We are ambitious! We must be, with 2.9 million regular customers and about 600.000 visitors a day. In our assortment you will find more than 300.000 different products and over 2.500 brands. 75% of our customers shop on a mobile device; mainly through the app.

About Wehkamp Tech
With over 100 tech colleagues from all over the world we work on offering a relevant assortment at the right time. We use many technologies to accomplish this, like microservices in containers and functions as a service. We also collect a lot of data that we use to train our machine learning algorithms. We encourage everyone to think ahead and find smart new ways to use online technology to offer our customers the best experience. Technological innovation is not only crucial for the best shopping experience but it also plays a key role in the logistic processes.

About our Tech stack
Gateway: NGINX with Lua & openresty
Micro-site: Node.js + React
Micro-service: .NET Core, Java
Data Sources: Kafka, Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, S3

We are looking for you to realize our potential, join the Wehkamp Tech Hub now!

Job Description

• You will work mostly remote, with a day per week at the office;
• You will be part of a multidisciplinary product team, building software that powers our product management domain;
• You will build innovative solutions that deliver direct customer value;
• Your team owns applications and services developed with different technologies: Node.js, Python, .NET, React, Typescript, Databricks, running in AWS on Kubernetes. We are therefore looking for a person who is flexible and willing to switch stack, do backend or (simple) frontends. You don’t have to know it all, but being open to learn is important;
• You understand the importance of developing robust, maintainable solutions, and you are not afraid to share your knowledge with peers;
• The continuous technical improvement of our systems is core part of your responsibility;
• You, together with your peers, own your systems. This means you act accordingly to prevent issues (testability), can detect issues quickly (observability), act swiftly to mitigate and fix problems in production and learn from what happened (post mortems).

Qualifications

Your profile

• Senior developer, not afraid of taking the lead in the team;
• Come up with maintainable and scalable solutions to customer or business problems;
• Maintain and improve systems your teams owns;
• Introduce observability in all systems, new and existing;
• Contribute to improve the team’s way of working;
• Help align the team with other teams and stakeholders;
• Coach other developers;
• Share knowledge within the team and with colleagues from other teams in cross-department tech sessions;
• Share candid feedback towards the team members and other people you interact with.

What we offer

You become part of the Wehkamp Tech Hub. Working at the Tech Hub means working in an innovative and inspiring high-tech working environment. In our new head office, the Wehkamp Tech Hub has its own environment with plenty of room for collaboration, learning from each other and presenting results.

Please check out: https://medium.com/wehkamp-techblog

Other benefits 

• Possibility to work mostly remote;
• Appropriate salary; 
• 10.5% holiday money allowance;
• 25 holiday days;
• Onsite gym;
• Pension scheme;
• Discounts on health insurance;
• Room for growth;
• And, of course, staff discount in our webshop and at kleertjes.com.

Additional Information

Transparency is very important in the application process. After you express your interest with your application, you will immediately receive a link to a personal status page, in which you can find the status of your application and all communication.

What happens after your application?
The process for this vacancy is as following: 

1. Do your expectations and our wishes match? Then we will invite you to a (video) call with the recruiter.
2. First interview with the hiring manager and tech lead, this will focus on the cultural and technical fit. 
3. If that is positive we’ll move on to a case or technical assessment, based on this you’ll have the second interview. 

We strive to give feedback as soon as possible and