Hybrid Senior Platform Engineer – Backend Services

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About the role

  • Senior Platform Engineer joining Squad Clipper to enhance backend services and architecture. Focusing on reusable services, automation, and mentoring within Rabobank's engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Working as a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll be joining Squad Clipper.
  • Accelerate delivery across Rabobank by providing reusable services, APIs, and patterns that remove friction for feature teams.
  • Raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability for services running on Cloud Foundry, Azure, and AWS.
  • Shape architecture and engineering standards.
  • Mentor and scale best practices across the organization.
  • Own the full lifecycle (DevOps): CI/CD, automated testing, deployments, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
  • Engineer for scale & performance: partitioning, caching, resiliency patterns, idempotency, and back‑pressure.
  • Elevate observability with tools like Splunk, SignalFx, Dynatrace, and PagerDuty.
  • Champion security and quality with tools like SAST and dependency hygiene.

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ experience in building platform services (preferably for backend applications on stacks like Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot).
  • Ownership & collaboration: you take responsibility, take initiative, communicate clearly, and manage stakeholder expectations.
  • Strong platform mindset: turning functionalities into platform services feels natural to you.
  • Strong DevOps mindset: CI/CD, infra as code concepts, automated testing (unit/integration/performance), deployments, monitoring, alerting.
  • Architectural thinking and the confidence to spar with architects and challenge the status quo constructively.
  • Problem solver with strong analytical skills and a bias for simplicity.
  • Professional working proficiency in English.

Benefits

  • Thirteenth month's salary
  • 8% holiday allowance
  • 10% Employee Benefit Budget
  • EUR 1,400 development budget per year
  • Hybrid working: balance between home and office work
  • A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

Job title

Senior Platform Engineer – Backend Services

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

€4,931 - €7,043 per month

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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