Developer in Amsterdam

As API As a Service Developer /Engineer you will be part of the IT4IT Digital Engineering Tribe. Our mission is to accelerate other IT application teams, for instance to implement and communicate through APIs. The Digital Engineering Tribe has great ambitions where you can be part of an Engineering community for API services. Together with your colleagues you will focus on connecting applications through API gateways, offering high performing customer & system-to- system API’s on top of the IT landscape.

You have it:
For this reason, we are looking for someone who is not only technically skilled, but also has the developer mindset in delivering services. Someone who dares to speak up, proposes improvements, leads by example, picks up improvements with the team and helps the other team members do the same. Someone who can help build our internal engineering community. If you don’t know something, you google it, experiment with it, fail and learn. To achieve greatness together, you help structure and document tooling and process standards as well as sharing best practices across the teams.

Are you the Software Developer (Java, Springboot) who is both technically and socially skilled and can help us in our journey “from outsourcing towards developing more of our own services”. We are looking for someone who can help us to professionalize along the way. 

Everyone in the different API DevOps teams is multi skilled. We don’t have separate testers, designers, support or leads. We do have our own specialism and preference, but we can all pick up the work. From idea to deployment and support: you are involved in each step of the way. We are proud of our delivered software and take full ownership of it.

This is what you bring>

• Proven experience (3-5 years) in object-oriented development of microservices and restful API’s
• experience with Java, Springboot, SQL, Git, Maven
• Knowledge/experience with agile/scrum
• Clear opinion and experience with testing and profiling of microservices (TDD is a  pré) and familiar with API Security including OAuth
• experience with Redhat OpenShift, SOAP, PL/SQL is a pré
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership for feature/story-based software engineering
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our Agile software development for the Tribe as a whole
• Good communication skills (both written and verbal) in English, pre if you speak or are learning Dutch

You Strengthen
The Digital Engineering Tribe is a cluster of platform teams that help and enable the software development teams in VodafoneZiggo. We have big dreams and ambitious goals we pursue. For this we are working hard every day for the very best result. We challenge each other, help each other, continuously improve ourselves and have lots of fun along the way. Obviously as a professional you get lots of freedom to shape your own work, responsibility and space to put your own ideas into practice.

Who we are
VodafoneZiggo is a company of two strong Dutch companies who joined forces. Since January 2017, we have been a strong combination together in the Netherlands. As a communication provider we offer our customers the best in entertainment, mobile telephony, fixed telephony and internet. With our products and services, we inspire people, companies and society to make contact. Whether on the road, at home or at work.

With more than 8000 employees, we are full of energy, ambitious and socially involved. Proud of what we perform and with whom we do this. With plenty of room for everyone to develop and take advantage of opportunities.

Our organization is rapidly and massively transforming itself to become more customer oriented, more adaptive, more responsive, more data-driven and more digital focused. This implies big changes to our IT and our way of working. The Digital Engineering Tribe plays a crucial enabling role in this transformation.

Where do you meet your colleagues? A few examples

• At our frequent team- and tribe meetings.
• In the Ziggo Dome or during a party with all colleagues from VodafoneZiggo.
• For a drink or dinner near our central office, almost on top of the Central Station of Utrecht. How accessible do you want it to be?

Enjoy the benefits 
Based on a 40-hour work week at VodafoneZiggo, you can count on:

• An ambitious employer, who recognizes that when you develop, VodafoneZiggo develops. Which is why we offer education and training opportunities and provide possibilities to take your next career step(s) here, too
• 20 days paid vacation, with an option to buy up to 40 additional days off
• You also receive a monthly Benefit Budget of 14,95% of your gross salary; you can use this to put money aside for vacation plans, save up additional sabbatical leave, buy extra days off, or you can simply take the cash. The choice is yours!
• You get a voucher for a phone, and (of course) a Vodafone subscription to go with it. Which you are also welcome to use for private calls.
• As an ambassador of our organization, you obviously get discounts on Vodafone and Ziggo products
• With an eye to your retirement, we offer a pension scheme that also allows you to save for extra retirement income
• We offer an NS-Business Card of your choice, including the option of a 1st class train pass that you can also use privately
• If you want, you can work for us part-time 
• Flexibility: work when and where you perform at your best
• A great office environment, directly adjacent to Utrecht Central Station. Our Central Office is a work and meeting space for colleagues as well as customers, complete with an Experience Center and store
• We value social impact. You can take part in several initiatives in this area, during work time. For example the Online Masters program, in which you teach kids how to navigate the digital world responsibly
• We also offer good (financial) arrangements if you find yourself going through a rough patch, such as our disability plan
• And we offer discounts on health insurance, sports memberships, day care and more

You do it
Are you in? Now click on the application button and reply.

Any questions? Just call Jolanda van Roon (recruiter) at: 06-29167836 or send a message; 

As part of the application process, we will ask you to complete a technical assignment. We are not going to ask you to write out a complex algorithm, but an insight to know how you work. This is a timeboxed assignment.

*A pre-employment screening is part of the hiring process 

This job vacancy is part of our search for a new VodafoneZiggo colleague.
It is NOT to be used for purposes of acquisition