Digital Product Engineer Back-end

Are you a digital product engineer enthusiastic about using your skills, knowledge and ideas to make a positive impact? Are you excited to build pioneering technology? Are you looking for a unique experience which bridges the physical and digital world? Look no further!

Our Digital Product team is growing and scaling our revolutionary award-winning platform for responsible and conscious textile creation called BYBORRE Create™. A design tool that empowers creators to design textiles that are more functional and responsible for the products we use everyday.

Over the last few years, our multidisciplinary team of knitters, designers and engineers has been working closely together to build an amazing platform that aims to drastically change the textile industry as we know it today. There is still much more to build towards our vision of a responsible world of textile creation and that’s where you come in!

Our team is in search of a Digital Product Engineer with a focus on back-end integrations across our suite of applications on our Create™ platform. Together, we are on a journey towards a healthier textile industry, with more creative freedom, less waste, and textiles designed with intent. Join our diverse team of digital creatives reinventing the textile industry!

About the team

• Be part of a close-knit, dynamic and international team (45+ people) in Amsterdam
• Mix of experts in different fields (knit engineers, atelier specialists, yarn specialists, Chief Pocket Officer, knit designers, in-house digital team and more)
• You will be a part of our Digital Product team, working closely with our Knit Specialists and Digital Product Designers. Charlie, our Digital Product Director will be your team lead.
• We work in a highly collaborative team, where everyone has the opportunity to take ownership over their work and the direction of the product.

What you'll be doing
On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Take responsibility to help define product features and share ownership over our products
• Architect future technical infrastructure
• Build pipelines for CI/CD workflows
• Design and build scalable backend systems that provide data to various sources
• Integration with headless CMSs
• Work in multidisciplinary teams to scale internal apps to fit to business needs
• Be involved in building the team and recruiting your future team members
• Learn from your team and visa versa, by participating in our regular team feedback sessions

Skills & experience
What we're looking for in the ideal candidate. Not all of these are must haves, so please take the leap to get in touch even if you don't feel you meet all criteria.

• 5+ years experience developing full-stack digital products
• Experienced in or excited about working in a start-up or scale-up environment
• Demonstrating experience with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and JavaScript
• Experience designing and consuming robust APIs
• Experience and interest working with permissions and billing infrastructure
• You enjoy finding solutions to complex challenges
• An eye for design and detail across a digital experience
• A growth mindset and the desire to learn and grow as an engineer
• You enjoy contributing to the team & company goals by sharing knowledge and experience.
• Motivated to understand the business, our users, their requirements, and to deliver results
• Driven by impact and care about the quality of software you build
• In our Digital Product team we follow a hybrid work method. We are seeking someone who is already based in the Netherlands or someone who wants to make the move and is able to join us at our studio in Amsterdam a few times per week (fully is also possible of course).
• Proficiency in English (our studio language)
• Preferably available from June/July 2022 onwards, full time

Benefits

• Being part of a dynamic, international team of specialists in different fields
• Being part of something bigger, opportunity to make a positive impact with your work
• Personal development program & opportunities
• Salary based on experience
• 25 holidays per year ( based on full time) & a pension plan
• Daily travel expenses covered
• Laptop, accessories and software tools
• Daily, healthy studio lunch, coffee, drinks & snacks
• A hybrid way of working. Our studio in Amsterdam is easily to reach by car, train or bicycle.
• Regular team events in the studio and the city
• A steep learning curve and an unforgettable adventure
• Soft landing package, visa & support if you are making the move to the Netherlands

Did we get you excited to join our team?
Then we'd love to hear from you!