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Senior Software Engineer

Location: Netherlands
Date Posted: 2025-08-05
Reference #: 303



Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Shipping Technology team and help us grow and scale our cloud-based platform and systems. In collaboration with product teams and stakeholders you will be responsible for driving and enabling our development and architecture strategy.

For this role, it’s important that you are passionate about technology, product, people, and business. We want engineers who are outcome focused and push themselves and the team to a higher level.

What You Will Do

- Build and support our backend systems by designing, writing and testing new features and functionality through Java (Spring Framework), Node.js, and cloud infrastructure components
- Maintain resilient, secure and performant solutions able to serve tens of thousands of daily requests through a multiservice architecture
- Improve existing systems by monitoring, identifying and correcting software defects
- Suggest and contribute to integrate new techniques, technologies, and improvements to the team
- Collaborate with other team members and mentor junior engineers

What We’re Looking For

- 4+ years of experience building and deploying backend systems
- Work eligibility in the Netherlands
- Strong proficiency with Java (Spring Boot) or JavaScript (Node.js)
- Experience working with Relational Databases
- Experience designing, implementing, and consuming REST APIs
- Experience with cloud-based applications (AWS, GCP, Azure, or SAP BTP)
- Experience with enterprise software is preferred
- Knowledgeable on software architectural patterns, able to mentor others
- Great written and verbal communication in English
- Desire to work in an international and collaborative environment
- Demonstrate continual desire to learn and stay up to date with technology

Our Stack

- Spring Boot (Java)
- Typescript (Node.js)
- SAP BTP
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- PostgreSQL & SAP HANA
- AWS Services
- Docker + Kubernetes (K8s)
- Bitbucket + JIRA

What We Offer

Attractive Compensation Package
We offer competitive compensation, a bonus program, as well as paid vacation days, so you can recharge your batteries.

Work-life Balance
We prefer to enable people to work in ways that suit their working styles, meaning we have a hybrid-working model (with remote options). Flexible working hours are also available.

Device Determination
We offer a “bring your own device” compensation so you can choose the technology that makes you most productive.

The role is based in Utrecht, Netherlands but you can work from anywhere in the Netherlands.


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About CONTAX

CONTAX helps thousands of companies around the world run their business better.

ERP business software helps companies of all sizes become more efficient, make better use of their resources, and become more successful.

CONTAX sells, implements and supports SAP ERP software to large and midsize companies. SAP is the world's leading ERP software for large and complex organizations.

Acumatica Cloud ERP is the world's fastest growing ERP software for small and midsized companies. CONTAX sells, implements and the supports modern, intuitive and powerful Cloud ERP software from Acumatica.

CONTAX has offices in USA, Canada, Australia and The Netherlands and one of the fastest-growing ERP software and consulting companies in the world.

We provide challenging and meaningful careers for our team members, where we can learn and grow while working with purpose and meaning. We encourage each other to work hard and together we celebrate our successes.

We strive for excellence in everything we do and, while results matter, we also have to allow others the opportunity to make mistakes, as it's a critical part of the learning process. We are an entrepreneurial environment where everyone is given the opportunity to try, and take calculated risks where appropriate.

We strive to be good global citizens and make a positive impact in the communities in which we live and work.

We believe we have the most talented and dedicated team of ERP professionals in the industry.

We're always hiring and always growing; and we'll hire talented people even when an opening doesn't exist. We plan to get bigger, better and stronger; and we're always looking for great people to join us on the journey.