Senior Fullstack Engineer, Software Development

About NewGlobe

NewGlobe is an education expert and a leader in learning, partnering with visionary governments to transform public education systems. Our mission is to ensure all education systems are inclusive, equitable, and transformative. We provide integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement, all grounded in learning science.

Technology Group

Technology plays a critical role in enabling us to provide transformative education at a massive scale in highly resource-constrained environments. This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programs, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day. Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development, and IT operations. Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

About The Role

We are looking for a full-time Senior Fullstack Engineer, Software Development to be part of one of our Amsterdam-based cross-functional software development teams. You will help build the software that powers our educational offering. The ideal candidate will have a strong customer focus, a track record of delivering high-quality products in a continuous delivery environment, and an appreciation for clean and simple code. NewGlobe especially values “T-shaped” team members – individuals with expertise in a particular area, but an interest in working across all parts of the technology stack and aspects of delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support new products and features.
• Ensure software is built with an eye towards quality, maintainability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with project sponsors to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximize customer value.
• Work with product and development teams to establish overall technical direction and product strategy.
• Coach and communicate work responsibilities to subordinates.

Requirements

• 5+ years of enterprise software development experience in C#, especially .NET Core, and relational databases, especially MS SQL Server and Vue.js in the front end.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
• Familiarity with continuous delivery practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GoCD, Octopus).
• Experience in any of the following areas is a plus (and interest a must): Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Cloud environments (esp. AWS) and Containerization (Docker), Web stacks associated with single-page applications (SPAs) and progressive web applications (PWAs), Other languages and ecosystems (e.g., NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs).
• NewGlobe is a strong supporter of open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus.

Values of Successful Employees at NewGlobe

We are looking for new joiners who are energized by our mission and share our values. Detailed doers, creative problem-solvers, relentless advocates, malleable learners, data-driven decision-makers, and curious investigators do well at NewGlobe.