Senior Staff Engineer, JVM

About the Role

• Provide technical leadership across Developer Platform teams in Amsterdam.

What You'll Do

• Lead architecture and roadmap for developer platform initiatives in Amsterdam.
• Drive cross-team alignment and consistency across build systems and deployment tooling.
• Deeply engage with engineers to identify gaps and build long-term platform solutions.
• Act as a technical partner to engineering managers and product leaders.
• Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring, and technical direction.
• Influence global platform initiatives and ensure strong collaboration across sites.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Proven experience operating at Staff+ level in large-scale engineering environments.
• Deep expertise in JVM ecosystem with hands-on Java and Kotlin experience.
• Prior experience with monorepos, Bazel, or internal developer platforms.
• Track record of building and scaling distributed systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or developer-facing platforms.
• Strong architectural thinking in high-scale, multi-team environments.
• Experience influencing engineering strategy and long-term product vision.
• Exceptional communication and mentorship skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Build/test infrastructure experience with distributed systems like Apache Spark.
• Contributions to open-source JVM tooling or frameworks.
• Experience collaborating across companies and industry leadership.
• Experience in building SDKs, internal libraries, backend, or mobile infrastructure.