Full Stack Web Developer
Studyportals, Netherlands
Job Description
We are searching for a Medior Full Stack Web Developer with experience in AWS, NodeJS, TypeScript, and VueJS.
Studyportals Headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Flexibility to work remotely.
About Studyportals
We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute 100 students around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts.
With forty different nationalities among the 150 people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun.
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Why are we searching for you?
At Studyportals, our mission is to empower students to find their ideal study program. We're committed to elevating our platforms and user experience to ensure a seamless journey for every user.
We're looking for a skilled developer to enhance Studyportals' core, focusing on simplifying navigation, guiding users to clear goals, and creating engaging features. Our search platform is the backbone of what we do, and we want to revolutionize it. Your role involves aligning our users' search experience with the best industry standards, creating a centralized space where they can explore everything they need. But we aspire to go beyond the ordinary.
We want to leverage NLP to not only provide search suggestions but also offer relevant content, truly guiding our users in their educational journey. Your role will be filled with exciting technical challenges, and we highly value initiative. Join us in reshaping the future of education discovery!
What are your three main goals?
- Optimize navigation, enabling users to search comprehensively in one centralized platform, and implementing NLP for personalized suggestions. Your innovative contribution will not only enhance the user experience but also drive increased engagement with our platform.
- Help us to become more scalable as a platform, by decoupling our dependencies and driving our microservice architecture. Staying in control of quality is key!
- Share your knowledge with your team members and develop yourself further as a developer by using your personal development time to learn new technologies.
How does your team look like?
The Product Engineering department consists of 35 people. You are part of a scrum team of 4-6. Your Product Owner (PO) sets the product priorities. You are, together with the Product Owner, responsible for designing and implementing new functionalities aimed at growing our user engagement targets.
This means that you, as a developer, have influence on what to build, and how to build it.
You report to our Software Development Team Lead, Alexandra. She started as a developer at Studyportals and knows her way around the systems. Her main responsibility is to make sure you can do your work in the best possible way, taking away impediments, drive technical innovation and make sure you can be the best version of yourself.
What Tech Stack do we use?
Almost all our systems have been developed in-house and follow modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS.
Our products are powered by VueJS, Node/NPM, TypeScript, Sass. In parallel, we are scaling up our infrastructure, moving towards Docker and our centralized CI/CD tooling.
Requirements
- At least a bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 5+ years of experience as a Full Stack Web Developer.
- Experience building applications in JavaScript component-based frameworks (e.g., VueJS, React or Angular). Modern JavaScript, TypeScript, NPM, Webpack, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS. And experience in developing applications using any object-oriented language, such as PHP, C#, or Java.
- You know to tell us when your code is SOLID enough
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other Cloud Computing Platform (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with (different types of) automated testing as part of CI/CD driven software development.
- You like to collaborate, appreciate open communication, and are comfortable with working cross-functionally.
Benefits
- Competitive salary including a bonus and pension.
- 32 vacation days, with flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g. be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day) Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs.
- Flexibility to work remotely 3 days per week, including a re