Back-end Developer

Interim | Back-end Developer | PHP | Multinational Retail Company | Big Data | Amsterdam

Are you passionate about Big Data and the impact this brings on organizations and its technology? For one of our clients, a major stock listed international retail company in Amsterdam, we have a challenging opportunity available for an interim Back-end Developer with a demonstrable interest in big datasets, data storage, and processing. Are you the one we are looking for?

This company is a well-known global leader in optical retail. It delivers superior high-quality products to people all around the world. You will join the data and insights team of this company. The company has a dynamic environment, so it is important that you do not get stressed from fast-changing contexts and environments. You will be working with a team that has hands-on experience but you will have a lot of freedom in the job, support will be there if necessary.

As Interim Back-end Developer within the Global Digital Marketing department your main focus is to support the data insights team with the design, development, roll out and improvement of the global digital dashboard, underlying architecture and data services to monetize digital data and ensure ROI visibility in 42 countries. In this job, you will be responsible storing this data efficiently and made available to several presentation layers and scientists in a performant way. For this, you will work with analytics practitioners and contexts inside and outside the company. Besides you will support the Digital Marketing team to create outstanding digital experiences, deliver Proof Of Concept’s, and support our community with inspiration & advice. The team develops products internally and outsources certain projects to external vendors. It is therefore also important that you guard the quality standards and make sure all deliverables fit in the bigger picture.

To be successful as Back-end Developer in this team, the following should apply

• 0-3 years of experience in working with various backend technologies, big data sets and data storage and processing

• Knowledge and experience with one of the following programming languages; PHP, Python, Node or Ruby

• Build API’s

• Experience or interest in big data storage systems like BigQuery, RedShift, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, or similar systems

• Experience or interest in cloud-based vendors like Google, AWS or Azure

• Able to create understandable, simple, clean and maintainable code

• You know different programming languages

• You are motivated to explore new technologies and do so without formal education

• You are proactive, team-player and communicative

• Strong knowledge of English (written & spoken)

You will have the opportunity to work with a challenging, dynamic and creative environment in a young, innovative and entrepreneurial team. Your role will be very diverse and fresh out of the box thinking will be appreciated. Furthermore, you will get the opportunity to work with the newest big data systems. In return, our client is offering an attractive salary plus secondary working conditions.

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