Backend Engineer

Experienced in building high-quality software, you can work well with business colleagues and engineers. You are not afraid to speak your mind and you have lots of ideas on how to build a tech-led culture. When it comes to GIT, pipelines, package management and unit/integration testing, you speak the same language as our engineers, but you may also be able to teach them a thing or two. Furthermore, you have:

• 8+ years of experience in software development as a Node.js backend engineer
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript
• Excellent knowledge of integration patterns using REST and GraphQL APIs
• Good understanding of CI/CD concepts and a DevOps mindset ("you build it, you own it")

• Some knowledge of React is a plus

As part of our Employee Experience, we offer you a range of competitive benefits that are available to you in order to improve the physical, mental, and professional wellbeing of our workers. Among the benefits are:

• We work with a hybrid model
• Starting financial aid so you can equip your work space at home
• Allowance and telework subventions
• Flexible working hours and 2 months of intensive working hours in summer so you can fully take advantage of your time
• We hire a life insurance and a pension plan for all our employees
• We establish objectives bonus as a performance reward
• You can get to the office as you please. We have a free parking lot for cars, motorbikes, electric cars with chargers, and bikes.
• Get to know our flexible retribution facilities such as transport card, nursery checks, health insurance with Sanitas, trainings...
• We care about people. That is why we are involved in society by facilitating volunteer actions and time to all our employees.
• We care about your wellbeing. We have a Wellness Program available.
• We are digital and we love technology. Also, every team works under agile methodology.

As a Node.js Backend Engineer, you will have plenty of opportunities to help us take the needed steps to modernise our backend applications, automate and improve on processes. You will work with cutting-edge technologies at one of the largest financial institutions in the Netherlands. Here, you will be uniquely positioned to lead important changes at NN, which aims to become a leading digital retail bank.

As our Node.js Backend Engineer, you'll be evaluating our technological landscape, designing and implementing automation of our processes where possible, investigating, analysing and fixing bugs, integrating systems, running them and others already deployed. And you will also help us create a more tech-driven culture at NN by being an ambassador and helping our teams embrace our new way of working, which marries client centricity with state-of-the-art software.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Defining and evolving the architecture of our solutions
• Developing and maintaining unified solutions incorporating coding standards
• Proactively contributing to Savings, Investments and Bank Assurance's strategic approach to ensure we are future-proof
• Using software to create best-in-class automation and integrations
• Closely collaborating and aligning with the Engineering Guild and facilitating community contributions
• Taking responsibility as editor-in-chief through code reviews and final decision-making
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers from our and other Domains