Senior Backend Engineer (Freelance)

nngroup; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly rate

Hybrid working

International environment

Job summary

Nationale Nederlanden (NN) in The Hague is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to help transform NN into a product oriented tech company. You will work on backend and frontend, using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS and GraphQL, delivering scalable services that touch hundreds of thousands of customers.

The role offers hybrid work with flexibility and opportunities to shape architecture, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to a high-quality codebase while advancing your career.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development with strong SDLC experience.
• Proven experience with AWS, Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience in Agile environments and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services and frontend features.
• Take ownership of customer-facing services and internal tools.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design reliable systems.
• Drive code quality, testing and maintainability.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

GraphQL

Agile methodologies

Secure SDLC

Azure DevOps

Tools

AWS CDK

Lambda

SQS/SNS

DynamoDB

Azure DevOps

Job description

Get ready to help drive digital change at Nationale Nederlanden (NN), one of the Netherlands' biggest financial services companies. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will contribute to our goal of transforming our company to a product oriented tech company. Based in The Hague, you will make a difference in over 500,000 customers' lives every day. Your new job could very well make a big difference in your work-life balance, too. We're famous for it, and you'll enjoy plenty of freedom in your role, with all the perks of hybrid working.

What you are going to do

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will help us create a more tech-driven culture at NN. In this role, you will:

• Work with modern technologies such as Node.js, Typescript, AWS, and GraphQL
• Build new projects from scratch and contribute to expanding or modernizing existing applications
• Take ownership of services used directly by customers or embedded throughout the organization
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design, develop, and maintain reliable and scalable solutions

The team owns dozens of services that support both our end users and the broader NN organization.

What we offer you

Our people are the driving force behind our organisation. We value the knowledge and expertise you bring. We believe that your temporary commitment can take our organisation to a higher level. We offer you:

• Competitive hourly rate depending on your knowledge and experience
• Startdate as soon as possible for +/- 6 months
• Hybrid way of working, partly from home and partly from the office
• International working environment with loads of knowledge sharing

Who you are

An all-round software engineer able to work comfortably on back-end projects, we are looking for someone who can develop high-quality code and have high-be curious, and actively acquires new skills, new methods and processes to make our customers even happier. The ideal candidate has passion for technology and wants to learn continuously and push the team to reach our common goals.

• 7+ years up in software development, with solid knowledge of Secure Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Experience with AWS (CDK, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB etc)
• Experience with NodeJS, TypeScript and Azure DevOps
• Experience with Ops (serverless, pipelines, observability, configuration management, compliance etc)

Who you will work with

You are going to be part of a team of unique awesome individuals with different backgrounds and cultures, we embrace diversity as an instrument to produce an even richer experience for both colleagues and customers. As all our tech departments are international with English being the main language. Relevant training will be accommodated when needed.