Role: Chief Technology Officer – eCommerce

Location: Benelux

Salary: Up to €150,000

The Opportunity

TechNET CXO is currently working with a global market leader on a confidential search to find an exceptional CTO to lead their IT and eCommerce departments to deliver a much-improved digital offering, driving revenue to reach their US$ 2 billion turnover target.

Reporting directly to the CEO, this individual will provide guidance to the board and the heads of departments by evaluating, developing and executing IT strategies that align with the vision of the company.

Key Tasks

• Take the eCommerce platform to the next level
• Contribute to the growth of the online business
• Take responsibility for website design, web application and apps
• Evaluate third party software within the development lifecycle
• Implementing policies and procedures for IS reliability
• Establish cloud solutions if needed

The Person

• A motivational and Passionate Leader
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A current and in depth understanding of technology surrounding the entire eCommerce landscape
• Good understanding of most recent back- and front-end programming languages
• Extensive experience in E-commerce
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, digitally centric environment
• You are energetic, collaborative and results-oriented self-starter
• Technically savvy, forward-thinking, innovative and adaptable
• Able to work well under pressure

Do you have trouble waking up in the morning because you hate your current job?

Are you a passionate PHP developer that wants to see recognition for your work?

Fancy being a part of growing, award-winning creative studio?

THE COMPANY: My client takes huge pride in every line of code and every pixel they deliver. Their process is rock solid and enables them to deliver cutting-edge digital products with great satisfaction. Working closely with agencies and brands to create some of the best and biggest digital projects in the world. Working for likes of Heineken, Philips, Adidas and McDonald’s, Tesla, Porsche, Bacardi, G-Star, the list goes on!!

There is a constant drive for perfection that has lead to heaps of awards ranging from: Site & Mobile of the Day from FWA and Awwwards, four years in a row nomination for Agency of the Year from Awwwards and being awarded the best digital agency in the Netherlands by the Dutch SpinAwards.

The Tech Stack >

• php, nodejs, laravel, aws, unit-testing, integration-testing, git, linux, nginx, apache, elasticsearch, tensorflow, beanstalkd, composer-php, mysql, rest, apiary.io, ssh, git-flow, continuous-deployment

THE ROLE: As a Senior Back-end Developer you will be a key-player in the team making sure challenging projects are fully functional, innovative, and perform well on every level with the ability to scale up and down if necessary. You inspire the team to use state-of-the-art techniques and make sure standards are never dropped.

There’s great freedom to choose new cutting-edge technology on every project and projects range from CMS driven platforms to serverside video rendering to AI/Machine Learning.

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

• 5 years of proven experience.
• The ability to learn quickly.
• Good knowledge of PHP and MySQL.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (such as Laravel)
• Knowledge of setting up scalable high performance PHP applications
• Proficiency in the English language

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience with AWS services
• Experience with Machine Learning and AI (TensorFlow)
• Experience with NodeJS applications
• The ability to swear in both Dutch & English

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive salary up to €55,000k
• 24 days of paid leave plus an average of 6 public holidays
• Work with cutting-edge technologies
• Monthly company events
• Daily healthy lunch and a moment to catch-up with your new work friends
• Phenomenal work environment, comfy ergonomic chairs & on-site massages
• Diverse culture, not your average tech environment
• Walking distance to the best that the Amsterdam city center has to offer
• More: travel reimbursement, access to conferences, and fun colleagues!

As a growing company they offer several opportunities to learn and advance yourself! They’re continuously training team members into becoming top-notch developers, having regular back and front-end code review meetings to make sure everybody can learn from mistakes & get up to speed with best practices.

SO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Java Developer

London

Up to £75,000 DOE + Generous bonus

Java developers required to help build the best financial services platform on earth. This innovative fintech business is truly disrupting the foreign exchange market and has already transferred over $70billion! The existing platform has been stretched to the limit so the time has come to move to the cloud and a major tech transformation has commenced building microservices, exploring asynchronous communications models and investing more in JVM technologies.

A bit about you:

You are a highly skilled software engineer who is passionate about software and technology. You are a critical thinker and a strong all-rounder who loves a challenge and thrives as part of a highly performing team. You are not afraid of responsibility and enjoy being the go to person who really makes a difference.

Ideally, your skills and experience will include:

• Fluency with Java (preferably 8+)
• Modern software engineering practices
• Experience working with different technologies and wide knowledge of the jvm ecosystem
• Comfortable working in an agile environment
• Springboot experience is a plus
• We value automated testing and practices that support it: TDD, BDD