Build software that gets used.
No hour factory and no tickets arriving via three layers. You sit at the table with the people who will have to work with it, you build it, and you are still around once it runs.
We are a small core team in Rotterdam and work with developers across the world around it. Whoever builds it, every line that goes live has been read by one of us.
Why people stay here.
Not because of the table football. Because you build things that actually go into use, and you get to say how.
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You talk to the client yourself
No project manager translating for you. You come along to the floor, see how the work really goes and help decide what gets built. That makes the work better and more fun.
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What you build goes live
Nothing disappears in a drawer here. Every two weeks something is on a test environment and shortly after somebody uses it. So you find out yourself whether your choices held up.
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You get the time to do it properly
We do not sell impossible deadlines to win a job. If something takes longer because it has to be right, we say that to the client rather than to you.
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You stay the owner of your work
Whoever built it also maintains it. That means cleaning up your own mess, but also that nobody wrecks your work without talking to you.
Three roles that are open.
Recognise yourself halfway? Then get in touch. We would rather have a conversation with someone who can do most of it than a CV that adds up on paper.
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PHP developer
You build platforms people work with every day: from a link between two systems to a complete portal. Laravel is the base, we work out the rest together.
What you do
- Build custom platforms and integrations in Laravel.
- Think along about how something should work, not only how it gets built.
- Come along to clients and see where the process jams.
- Maintain and improve your own work after it goes live.
What you bring
- A few years of experience with PHP and a modern framework.
- A feel for what a user needs, not only for technology.
- The habit of saying when something is no good.
- Dutch good enough to talk to a warehouse manager.
What you get
- Work that goes into production and keeps running.
- Room to make your own architectural choices.
- A laptop and tooling you help choose.
- Colleagues who read code and say something about it.
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System engineer
Our servers are in Rotterdam and we intend to keep it that way. You keep them running, make sure we notice before a client calls, and that a recovery is not a search party.
What you do
- Set up, maintain and monitor Linux servers.
- Make back-ups and, more importantly, restore them regularly.
- Keep failover and security in order and write it down.
- Help developers when something behaves differently in production.
What you bring
- Experience with Linux, networking and everything that goes wrong there.
- Calm at the moment something actually does go wrong.
- An urge to automate anything you have done twice.
- Willingness to take the occasional on-call shift; that is paid.
What you get
- Your own hardware in a data centre you can drive to.
- A say in what the infrastructure looks like.
- No ticket factory: you solve it and move on.
- Room and budget to go deep on what interests you.
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Support desk
You are the first to pick up when a client calls. You solve what you can solve, and make sure the rest reaches the right person with the whole story attached.
What you do
- Take reports by phone and email, and judge straight away how bad it is.
- Investigate and fix what you can fix yourself.
- Keep clients informed, including when the answer is not ready yet.
- Turn recurring questions into something we improve structurally.
What you bring
- Patience and a pleasant telephone voice.
- Enough technical feel to retell a problem accurately.
- The reflex to ask one more question instead of transferring the call.
- Good Dutch; English is a bonus.
What you get
- A team sitting next to you instead of behind an escalation button.
- Room to grow into maintenance or development.
- Work where you notice the difference at the same clients.
- A permanent contract once it suits both sides.
About money we are not mysterious.
In the first conversation we name a figure first, so you do not have to guess. What comes with it: pension, travel allowance, a good laptop and a budget to go deep on whatever you feel like. We do not count holidays down to the half day.
Fancy dropping by sometime?
Do not send a two-page cover letter. Pick the vacancy, leave your number, and we will call within a working day. If it clicks, we have a coffee in Rotterdam.
Anna Smink
No CV needed to start. A link to your work or your GitHub is welcome, of course.
We have your message.
You will hear from us within a few days. Short and personal, not a standard rejection from a system.
We do not welcome agency approaches based on these vacancies. Agencies who call anyway get the same answer as the last one.