GT was founded in 2019 by a former executive from Apple, Nest, and Google. GT’s mission is to connect the world’s best talent with product careers offered by high-growth companies in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. You will be a dedicated part of the core tech team, working directly with product leadership.

On behalf of Intorqa, GT is looking for a startup-minded Java Engineer.

About Intorqa

IIntorqa is the first Threat Intelligence platform focussed solely on the video game industry. We help protect some of the biggest video games in the world by providing security teams with real-time insight into the activities of online communities that aim to harm the player experience.

This Role

You will work on capturing online content and data from a broad range of sources, ranging from the open web to chat groups, social media channels, and TOR hidden services.

What you'll do

• Write and integrate content capture solutions from online sources, developing reusable software components that sit within our wider architecture
• Look to constantly improve our content capture capabilities by implementing content capture best practices and technology components.

What you'll bring

Essential

• At least 3 years of solid experience in Java and web technologies
• Experience in developing asynchronous code within java or other JVM languages.
• Working with REST API's
• Experience in developing and managing distributed systems
• Docker
• Familiar with Git
• Strong oral / written English language skills
• Experience working with a modern, agile development method (Scrum, Kanban etc)

Advantageous

• Elasticsearch
• Web crawling / scraping experience
• Reactive programming using Vert.x or other Reactive framework
• Docker Swarm / Kubernetes
• MongoDB
• AWS
• Unix-based operating systems
• A love of video games!

Characteristics

• Ability to take ownership of tasks, working independently and proactively
• Have the experience and confidence to recommend improvements and enhancements where appropriate
• Open to change and learning new techniques and technologies
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• The hunger and drive to succeed in a startup environment

Why should you join Intorqa?

You have an opportunity to join a dynamic startup in a fascinating space, working with state-of-the-art technology. You will be able to help shape the technical direction of the business, working with a small team of experienced engineers.

We go beyond usual perks… By working with us, you will get:

• Health insurance
• Lunches coverage
• Psychotherapy assistance allowance
• Gym allowance
• Individual educational budget
• Monthly commute allowance for those who visit the office in Kyiv/Krakow or free parking space in Unit.City (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Best-in-class IT equipment mirroring our client set-up
• 18 business days of paid vacations days per year and paid sick days
• All public holidays are paid days off

GT working model:

You will work directly with a client through our Extended Team model. We try to do things differently and put our efforts to integrate you as deeply as possible into the client’s team. You work with the same tools and technologies as they do and are managed directly by the client without any intermediary in between. We help you build relationships and create an environment where you genuinely feel like a member of the client’s team. We also encourage trips to a client and join teambuilding and after-work activities. Our Extended Team model is focused on long-term projects that last over several years.

Meet the recruiter:

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer who can work in Tech Support of our live platform to build and extend our virtual event platform & amplify the user experience we deliver to clients. The idea is to keep it bug-free, enhancing our solution with ideas that solve challenging problems our customers face during events.

This is going to be a high-impact role where the deliverable will be used by thousands of users upon release. You will be required to implement software that is accurate, fast, thoughtful, and scalable.

In this role, you’ll be required to follow Support tickets SLAs, and understand business goals and roadmaps from customers/product managers. You will then select the best approach to solve the problem in a generic way that naturally extends the product and implements a solution for reported tickets. We entrust ownership to our engineers and let them run with creative ideas. We also have engineering teams across Pakistan and Dubai that you can look forward to for help and guidance.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Development of apps, tools, and services with PHP frameworks like Yii2, CodeIgniter
• Implement APIs
• Integrate HTML and front-end deliverables
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications & customer requirements
• Estimating the development efforts required and chasing weekly / monthly targets
• Code reviews, follow change control
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Work with development, staging, and production environments seamlessly
• Collaboration with project/product management teams and other stakeholders
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software

Qualification & Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science/IT or relevant degree
• Proven 2+ years of experience with PHP Frameworks
• Proven 1+ year of experience in Tech Support of a live product

Skills

• Experience in PHP frameworks like Yii2, CodeIgniter
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, AJAX
• Hands-on with Frontend technologies like HTML5, CSS3, BootStrap
• Knowledge of CICD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Fast Lane, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases development e.g. MySQL AWS RDS/Aurora, MongoDB
• Experience with 3rd Party API implementation and integrations
• Sound knowledge of code versioning tools such as GitHub/GitLab
• Good knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.) will be a plus point
• Understanding front-end libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS/ReactJS will be a plus point
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and tools
• Values a culture of mentorship and learning
• Good spoken & written communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
• Flexibility in multiple time zone coverage

“When I joined the company as one of the earliest employees four years ago, we brought the minimum viable product to market in less than a year, and since then we‘ve continuously improved and professionalized. We’re in a brand-new phase every year; it’s impossible to grow bored. And of course, I also like that we’re continuously winning. We’re a trusted industry partner now, with tangible success.” - Bart Römgens, lead software engineer Applications & Integrations

At Samotics, we develop AI-based predictive analytics for industrial machinery. The applications & integrations team is looking for a high-performing full stack developer to help us present our enormous amounts of sensor data to our clients in a fast, consistent, intuitive way and to help us reduce the carbon footprint of industrial machines (responsible for more than 40% of global electricity consumption) by improving our dedicated energy monitor.

For whom?

For this role, we are looking for a high-performing software engineer at junior, medior or senior level. Depending on your experience, we will adjust the weight of the responsibilities of this role. As long as we believe in your talent and see a match with our team, we're confident we have interesting challenges to offer!

About Samotics

Passionate about solving the problem of unplanned downtime, Samotics uses AI-driven electrical signature analysis to create smart predictive maintenance solutions that increase productivity and reduce energy waste while saving customers’ time and money.

We serve customers such as Total, Schiphol, Nouryon and ArcelorMittal. Our product, SAM4, leverages machine learning algorithms and IoT sensors to detect upcoming failures in critical industrial assets up to months in advance. But SAM4 does more than just prevent unplanned downtime. It also enables the world's largest and most successful industrial companies to significantly reduce energy waste.

We are a growing, energetic company where professionalism, a great atmosphere and cutting-edge technology go hand in hand. Our team in Leiden, the Netherlands currently has about 50 people and continues to grow. Some of these employees work remotely.

What you will do

You will work in a small, dedicated team designing and implementing data structures, algorithms, interactive visualizations and user interfaces to share these insights with clients via web applications and APIs. You build these features end-to-end; you work on databases, application logic and user interfaces. Core areas you will work on as a full stack developer:

• Design, implement, test and deploy our web applications that offer actionable information about the health and performance of industrial machines
• Improve our web applications for IoT device fleet monitoring and advanced data analysis
• Further develop and scale our infrastructure and backend systems
• Gather requirements from different stakeholders
• Build functional APIs to expose our services
• Code reviews, continuous integration, automation and daily deployments

How we work

The development team uses its own simple, practical and functional methodology, allowing you to fully focus on software engineering without having to switch tasks. You will work based on the principle of freedom and responsibility. We take pride in combining professionalism, trust and very few meetings.

The development team

The software engineering team currently consists of 11 developers (5 experienced seniors, the others juniors or mediors) working on a large architecture covering a wide domain, from signal processing on our edge devices through dashboarding for different user groups. Continuous improvement and daily deployments are at the heart of the high level of quality we deliver. The applications & integrations team develops new features that provide insight into the health and performance of our customers’ industrial machines, as well as supporting our partners in monitoring their fleet of IoT devices.

Tech stack

Since we work on cutting-edge technology, we use an up-to-date stack:

• Python
• Flask
• Angular
• Terraform
• AWS
• The team prefers to use Linux distributions for their development environments

What we offer

• A competitive salary

• A brand-new, custom-designed office (with 90% recycled materials) at a three-minute walk from Leiden Central Station

• Flexibility to work remotely for up to 80% of the time*

• Ability to work part time (4 days)

• Access to a wide range of learning programs

• Generous parental leave

• Daily fresh lunches and healthy snacks when working in the office

• The chance to work on cutting-edge technology that affects industry worldwide

• A high-performing software engineering team

• A fun and professional company culture based on the principle of freedom and responsibility

* Depending on your location, we can also discuss a fully remote set-up if you are based outside of the Netherlands.