How does diving into the world of secure digital communication for ministries, law firms, and healthcare professionals sound to you? Well, this is what we do at Zivver. We’re building the future of secure communications with a platform used by over one million users, across all industries, to securely share sensitive information - and we're rapidly scaling up.

Our guiding philosophy is that secure communication requires excellent usability. To help us in this journey, we’re currently expanding the team with a Scala Engineer. It’s your job is to deliver quality for the Zivver platform which is used by around 1.5 million users. That said, you won’t be ticking off tickets all day - you make an impact on many levels; helping your teammates grow, sharing your voice and knowledge within the team, and initiating new ways of working.

According to your new colleague Keyvan, you do the cool stuff: “We offer a challenge that developers like to deal with: it’s all about security, encryption and certainly something your brain can chew on. And as long as you get your stuff done, you are free to organize the day as you like.”

Hot takes

#raisethebar is your mantra
Not all ideas end up being great, but every great solution starts with creative ideas
We explore new technologies but understand the need for delivering a reliable and mature product
Your opinion matters

Responsibilities

Technical

Develop new features for and maintain performance of the Zivver Backend platform
Review code of colleagues and suggest improvements
Be the go-to person for internal communication
Successfully triage issues and solve bugs
Contribute to the increased stability, scalability and usability of the Zivver platform

Personal

You understand the value of team effort, you share your input so together we can get stuff done
Speed and quality are what you’re about. You know your craft and you #get-it-done.
You have high standards for code quality
You’re not afraid to share your opinion and advocate on your expertise
You’re ready to contribute to the Zivver Backend Guild and share your experience with others

Benefits

An exciting, fast-growing, energetic environment
International diverse team with over 27 nationalities - and yes, we offer Dutch classes too!
HQ in Amsterdam where you’re able to work a few days a week & full home office support to make sure you’re all set
Working from Bali, the US or Spain? Any place, anywhere: we fully support temporary working from X
Part of the pie: we’ve got a stock option plan
At least €1.000,- per year on personal development budget
All the relocation benefits you need for a fresh start
Don’t worry about tomorrow: we’ve got you covered with a pension plan

Requirements

Proven experience in Scala
Functional programming experience
Experience with SQL (we use Postgres) would be a plus
Familiar with ELK stack
Familiar with Scala Type-level programming (for example cats/cats effect libs)
Preferred formal education, and even cooler, a degree in a Computer Science / Software Engineering field
Have experience with monitoring and alerting systems, like Datadog
You don’t back off from some occasional DevOps responsibilities (Amazon)

If you’re still reading and excited about this role, we welcome your application even if you think you don’t meet all the requirements. We understand that no candidate is perfect, and would love to hear your story