Dev Engineer Eventbus platform in Amsterdam

As a Dev Engineer at Touch Point Tribe you will be working together with other colleagues in a squad and you will be responsible for the running the Eventbus platform with all its components. The squad consist of a number of senior engineers, who will gladly guide you in understanding our product and always are open to new suggestions in how to improve our offering.

In addition to being part of a squad, you will also contribute to:

• Streamlining the chapter’s development process from code check-ins, automated deployment and acceptance testing, all the way towards production.
• Industrializing the chosen platforms within ING for use by other squads.

Your work environment

Touch Point Tribe’s main purpose is to: create, evolve and maintain shared services, components and frameworks for other tribes. Within this tribe, IT Product Owners together with the squads will be responsible for the development of block components which will be used by other squads. The squads are the home base for the squad members, but hierarchically the members of squads are grouped under Chapters. Each chapter consists of members with the same expertise and this chapter is responsible for defining the roadmap for their expertise, setting the example, share the knowledge and educate other squad members. You will be working for the Chapter Stack II. This chapter is responsible for (distributed) data solutions, like Apache Kafka

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The departments' main duties include:

• Take ownership of distributed data solutions which are used by the squads and provide consultancy on these solutions
• Investigate, understand and choose the right tool(s) for the job to be done and ensure that the squads are capable to use them
• Industrialize a data solution, so that it can be used seamlessly by the squads
• Continuously monitor and improve efficiency, quality and time-to-market through in-depth automation of building, testing and deployment
• Phasing-out data solutions that have reached the end of their life cycle

Skills required

• Professional and intellectual ability at bachelor level
• Solid understanding of operating, maintaining and developing against event driven platforms e.g. Kafka
• Strong conceptual understanding of the big picture is preferred
• Able to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Experienced with Agile development & Scrum
• Version Management, GIT, Continuous Integration
• Knowledge of Java and Web API’s
• Knowledge of Scala and Python is beneficial
• Comfortable with collaboration and open communication
• Focused on delivering quality above quantity
• Platform engineering / Total stack experience is hugely beneficial (e.g. Linux, Ansible, Python, scripting, …)
• Knowledge of other databases is preferred
• Ability to adopt and test new features
• Knowledge sharing will be expected
• Excellent team player
• Passion for backend technology
• Attention to details

What we offer

Touch Point is a challenging IT work environment with extensive, innovative developments. Service Delivery is performed according to a new method - Continuous Delivery. Staff who want to grow along with us will be given plenty of opportunities for their own initiatives and development. 

• Excellent terms
• Education & development possibilities
• A very innovative and international IT environment