OCTA Hoofdkantoor Senior Python Developer Hubs Amsterdam

Octa; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 61,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday pay

Hybrid work

Company laptop

Mileage allowance

12-month contract

Salary range

Job summary

OCTA Farmacie Groep in the Netherlands is seeking an experienced Senior Python Developer who will own a specific system, bridging technical delivery with product ownership and business stakeholder liaison. You will join a structured engineering team with a tech lead and a product owner.

The developer will translate business requirements into scalable solutions, contribute to code, and manage stakeholder communications. Hybrid work is available with 2 days in the office per week.

Qualifications

• Senior level with extensive full-stack experience
• Strong backend focus in Python; frontend ability
• Experience with modern web architectures and API design
• Experience leading a domain or product
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; Dutch language fluency

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to development of code
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Communicate proactively with internal clients and stakeholders
• Take responsibility for the product backlog and prioritisation
• Ensure code quality, architecture and best practices

Skills

Python backend

Frontend development

API design

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Dutch language

Tools

SQL design

Docker / Docker Compose

CI/CD pipelines

Networking basics

Job description

OCTA Farmacie Groep is a nationwide pharmaceutical organisation with over 900 employees. OCTA comprises pharmaceutical wholesalers, institutional pharmacies, Central Filling hubs and more than 50 community pharmacies across the Netherlands. See also www.octa.nl .

What will you be doing?

For a strategic development project, we are looking for an experienced Senior Python Developer who will be primarily responsible for one specific system or product. In this role, the candidate will combine strong technical execution with ownership of the product and direct liaison with business stakeholders.

The developer will work within a broader engineering structure comprising three development teams, a product owner and a tech lead.

Team structure

• Tech Lead (architecture, coaching, standards)
• Product Owner (sprint planning, stakeholder consultation)
• Product team:
• Senior Full-Stack Developer (this role)
• 2 Senior Developers (already in place)

What do you bring to the role?

• Senior level (extensive experience as a full-stack developer)
• Strong backend focus using Python, but also proficient in frontend development
• Experience with modern web architectures and API design
• Experience leading a dedicated domain or product
• Strong communication skills and a business-minded approach
• Experience with stakeholder management and internal client communication
• Excellent command of the Dutch language, both spoken and written, is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI / prompting (e.g. working with LLMs or AI integrations)
• Experience with the Java programming language
• Experience with the key-value stores Redis / Valkey

Key responsibilities

• Actively contributing to the development of the code
• Translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Communicating proactively with internal clients and stakeholders
• Taking responsibility for the product backlog and prioritisation (in consultation with the business)
• Ensuring code quality, architecture and best practices

Technical stack

What do we offer you?

• Salary, depending on skills and experience, ranges from €5,500 to a maximum of €7,500
• 8% holiday pay
• A 12-month contract for 40 hours per week, with the prospect of a permanent position
• Hybrid working available (minimum of 2 days per week in the office)
• Company laptop
• Mileage allowance (commuting)

Technical skills required

• Ability to navigate existing codebases with ease and refactor them where necessary
• In-depth knowledge of SQL: ability to (re)design database tables, including foreign keys, constraints, indexes, joins and performance analysis, both theoretically and in practice.
• Good knowledge of networking: how IPv4 works, DNS servers, NTP servers, port forwarding and debugging skills: ping, traceroute, dig, ARP tables, etc.
• Python: not only able to write code, but also to truly understand it: how the GIL works, how different implementations can impact performance (e.g. member checks between a list and a set). Able to resolve existing issues: for example, cases where an ORM query is slow.
• Infrastructure knowledge: you can set up CI/CD pipelines and have done so before. You know how SSH keys work and how Docker (and Docker Compose) works. You can also analyse and debug a production server when issues arise: CPU, RAM, disk space, write speed, etc.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the Python ecosystem, for example package managers such as ‘uv’ and tools such as ‘ruff’, ‘ty’ and ‘mypy’.
• Sufficient front-end knowledge to be able to assess code (written by Claude): what is good and what is not.