What you tell your friends you do
“I build web shops. And no – I will not fix your computer.”
What you will really be doing
- Coming up with new functionalities and building them.
- Improving the technology that runs over 300 web shops.
- Improving the user-friendliness of all of those web shops.
How will you be doing this?
- You are an all-rounder in a Scrum team. You will have your own specialization, but you will also be able to perform all other tasks within the team.
- You prioritize your own work together with your team and Product Owner. You will receive immediate feedback from end users and you will have a lot of opportunities to experiment.
- You will be using the right tools for whatever job will be thrown at you. Choices that were made in the past are not rules.
- You will work in a motivated team to meet ambitious deadlines. There is always a budget for good ideas.
- Big data is your guru, your gut feeling isn't. To measure is to know.
What we have worked on last quarter
- Faceted search. Search and filter real-time product information, hundreds of times per second, for 90.000 products in 280 shops.
- Responsive design. One codebase, lots of devices, but always the optimal user experience.
- Reviews. A completely new infrastructure for better performance and scalability. Improved usability for both customers and moderators. More reviews, more interaction, less spam, better conversion rates.
What a day in the office might look like
You open a pull request in GitHub for your last changes in the Javascript codebase of one of the back-end services for our new faceted-search functionality. You have fixed a bug in a de-serialisation method that was causing metadata to leak from JSON objects. Considering the large amount of simultaneous, relatively small requests these services process, Node.js seemed the obvious choice. So you had to abandon your usual work field of PHP and give the old Javascript another chance. Once again it proved itself a powerful language, capable of building beautiful stuff. Maybe the front-enders were right after all? Now that this has been tackled, you return to PHP. You had this idea to optimise the determination of the sorting order of the filters on the site…
Team
You will be working in a team with three to five other developers, each of them with their own specialization, ranging from PHP to Javascript. Your team will be complemented by a Scrum Master and a Product Owner.
We offer
- A position at one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands.
- A joyous salary.
- Lots of room for your creativity.
- Ridiculously good training opportunities through our Coolcadamy.
- A discount on our entire product range.
- 25 days of paid leave plus an average of 6 public holidays.
- Compensation of travelling-expenses.
- Great pension scheme.
- A contract for an indefinite period.
- Relentless constant techno-music playing in your team work space. Or complete silence, if that's your thing.
- A phenomenal atmosphere in the office, including very-free office drinks and legendary Coolblue parties.