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Full Stack Engineer

RemoteAmsterdam, Noord-Holland, NetherlandsEngineering

Job description

Do you get excited with the idea of working all across the stack of a complex web application backed by a system of microservices and data streaming pipelines? Can you architect and implement solutions that leverage state-of-the-art libraries? And can you do all of this without compromising on code quality? Then don’t wait another minute to apply!


🧑‍💻 What we are doing?

Kaizo aims to actively guide employees towards achieving their goals and making an impact at their companies.

We are building a performance development platform for customer support teams that leverages gamification and AI to improve operational efficiency, elevate teams' performance and retention with actionable goals. We are a product-led, fast-growing SaaS company with a diverse team and a globally active customer base.

  • Kaizo is leveraging gamification and machine learning to make the daily work experience for customer support agents more engaging, fun and productive.
  • We run a microservice-based stream processing platform which processes 200+ million events every day using Akka Streams and Kafka.
  • Those services are deployed to Kubernetes on Google Cloud and feed data into Elasticsearch and Mongodb.
  • Our systems are designed to be reactive, e.g. responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven.


🗓️ What are your 12 labours here?

  • Developing new features in a fast-paced startup environment

  • Designing and building RESTful and streaming services to be consumed by UI and other backend services. Building UI components which consume RESTful services

  • Writing highly reusable and tested code

  • Working with a product manager and other engineers to scope requirements and shape solutions.

  • Analysing problems, suggesting improvements to our products. A lot of freedom to build your own solution

Job requirements

🧑‍💻 What you bring to the table?

  • 3+ years of professional experience designing and building front- and backend software
  • Experience with streaming data processing (familiar with backpressure, message queues like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
  • Nice to have experience on the JVM or FP concepts. Willing to learn and code Scala
  • Experience with TypeScript and React
  • Experience writing microservices. Our services are RESTful and event-driven
  • Experience working within cross-functional teams, collaborating with Product Managers, design and UX
  • BS/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience


🦸 What’s all the fuss about?

  • We leverage gamification and machine learning to help customer service agents become support champions

  • We are an ambitious startup with $7 million in funding under our belt

  • We got named in Forbes' list of Top 25 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2020

  • We are a super international team of 10+ people and lots nationalities


🏆 What’s in it for you?

  • An office right in the heart of Amsterdam, or a desk at a remote-work friendly location of your choice

  • Great office gear: MacBook, tools, desks, chair — there’s something for everyone

  • Flexible schedule, remote work (within the EU time zone) whenever needed, free lunch

  • Fun workations (2019: Tuscany, 2020: Zoom 😢, 2021: Portugal) & open holiday policy


Psst. Do you want to help us understand what makes you the best match for this role? Feel free to send us a 2-minute video motivation.

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