Staff Engineer - Growth

What is the role about?

As a Staff Engineer, you will have an impact on technical decisions, as well as a variety of projects and initiatives at Bitvavo. In this role, you will be part of the Growth team whose objective is to acquire new customers, manage the affiliates and referral lifecycle and increase customers’ engagement. You will work closely with our Engineering Managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers to continuously improve our existing architecture, promote best practices and processes, and mentor and build strong relationships with other engineers.

How will you make an impact?

• Leading the design, development, and implementation of technology initiatives within the Growth team
• Being responsible for designing, architecting, developing and implementing the strategic vision and solution for our future scalable data-driven trading activities
• Defining best practices, processes and coding standards that fuel innovative ideas for emerging business needs and demands
• Mentoring and inspiring engineers on technical decisions and initiatives
• Raising the bar on practices and standards while demonstrating leadership
• Staying current with the latest technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and growth
• Being self-directed, pragmatic and proactive in driving change and pushing the platform domain forward

How will you be successful?

• 7+ years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a highly regulated industry
• Deep expertise in AWS and designing and implementing complex architectures
• Demonstrated experience with event-driven microservices (Kafka)
• Strong knowledge of programming design patterns and principles, as well as object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of algorithm complexity and framework structures
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to handle complex technical issues
• Passion for technology and a desire to stay current with the latest industry developments

What do we offer?

Excellent employment terms, including:

• A very competitive package
• Catered lunch and breakfast in the office
• 26 days of annual leave, and your birthday off!
• Personal development budget and internal courses
• Unlimited access to coaching platform and monthly wellbeing budget
• Hybrid environment within The Netherlands

Who are we?

We are Bitvavo. We’re on a mission to make digital assets accessible to everyone. This means creating a user-friendly and reliable trading platform, with a wide variety of digital assets and transparent trading fees. Over the years we’ve become a trusted exchange used by over one million Europeans.

Bitvavo was founded in 2018 and has come a long way since then. We’re now a team of more than 200 employees from 33 different nationalities and we’ll keep growing to achieve our mission. Our headquarters are based in the canal district of Amsterdam.