What You'll Be Doing

• Building paved paths and self-serve tooling to make the right thing the easy thing.
• Building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite, GitHub Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, GitHub).
• Improving backend and frontend developer experiences through scoped project delivery.
• Contributing to GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem: middleware, federation, schema sharing, CLIs, codegen, servers and clients.
• Contributing to IAM solutions and primitives for ease and security by default.
• Helping engineers use and understand container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (OpenMetrics, Datadog).
• Gathering feedback from internal users, turning it into problem statements, and prioritizing work with the team.

You Should Have

• 2-5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with developer platforms, internal tooling, or infrastructure.
• Full-stack curiosity, comfortable with backend services and building knowledge in frontend build pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and CI configuration.
• Hands-on experience with at least some of: CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred), container orchestrators (Kubernetes preferred), build tooling, backend-for-frontend (GraphQL preferred), service-to-service communication (gRPC preferred), metrics, or artifact storage.
• Good grasp of problems and goals, able to ask the right questions and connect work with broader team objectives.
• Care for internal users by treating engineers as customers and validating impact of shipped work.
• Ownership of projects from idea to production rollout, keeping stakeholders informed and raising risks early.
• Commitment to fixing tech debt and helping with migrations.
• Good communication skills to write design docs, participate in interviews, and update teammates.
• A helpful attitude to unblock others and ease their work.
• Growth mindset, seeking feedback, learning quickly, and building towards broader impact.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to data-driven DevEx development using metrics such as DORA.
• Experience with AWS.
• Familiarity with IAM concepts such as JWTs, OIDC, and fine-grained authorization.
• Experience with Terraform.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing company with global impact and a multinational environment.
• Daily catered lunches including vegetarian options, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks in the office.
• Commute expenses covered for employees living outside Amsterdam.
• 25 vacation days based on full-time employment.
• Collective health insurance plan with premiums fully paid by Flexport.
• Defined pension contribution scheme.
• Equity program making every team member a shareholder.
• Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living.
• Parental leave benefits supporting time off for pregnancy, childbirth, and bonding with new child.