Why Recharge.com 👀

We are the leading one-stop-shop for branded payments, making online recharge possible for anyone, anywhere at any time — whether you or someone you love needs credit for calling, gaming, entertainment or money. This is your chance to join an ambitious scaleup in a state of rapid growth; we’ll push you to develop yourself and help you create a real impact in your role. Put simply: we could write history together.

We won’t bore you with a corporate spiel about how we might be taking on the world of branded payments (spoiler: we are). Instead, we’ll let the numbers speak for themselves: +$70 million in funding (and counting!), +13000 products, +$500M sales, 3M customers, a presence in +160 countries, 6 consumer brands, a team of 150+ employees and 42+ nationalities, and 1 person missing — you.

We’re on the hunt for the hungriest and most passionate talent out there. If at any point your brain screams “I want in!” while you’re reading this, then consider this the sign you’ve been looking for: we want you too.

The Role 💡

We’re looking for an ambitious and experienced Lead Software Engineer (Backend) to join our growing team in Amsterdam, Reporting to and working closely with our Engineering Manager, Tatiane Tassinari to validate the value of technical work, putting together architectural designs and leading the implementation of critical initiatives.

The engineering department consists of around 60 engineers, mostly based in Amsterdam, but we also have an office based in Lisbon! The Tech lead will work closely alongside their team, while also supporting engineers across multiple teams where you will lead cross team initiatives and guide decisions, especially for your related guild. You’ll be responsible for discovering, prioritising and planning technical challenges.

What will I do? 🤔

• Delivering business impact across a team, delivering capabilities or technical systems

• Leading within their team while driving impact beyond the team by driving cross team initiatives

• Setting technical strategy for business impacting projects, defining technical roadmaps often involving cross team dependencies

• Constructively taking part in the evaluation and application of ideas, plans and solutions

• Coaching and mentoring members of the team by helping them with their craft, providing guidance and displaying role model behaviour

• Actively reviewing and verifying performance of production systems and infrastructure by continuously monitoring appropriate observability metrics and business KPIs

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems

• Solving issues with the systems, prioritising based on customer and business impact

• Advocating best development practices within the team, as well as driving adoption across the engineering community

• Acting as a strong discussion partner for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Collaborating with adjacent teams and other partners to deliver on business objectives

• Experience working on products that impact a large user base or in an entrepreneurial startup environment

What you have 💪🏻

• Leading by example and gain your teammates' respect through your actions and not your title

• You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality

• Strong programming skills and experience with 2+ server-side programming languages

• Experience building, launching and running critical, high-performance, distributed, fault tolerant systems.

• Min 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, you’ve worked with web applications, distributed systems and product(s) that impact customers at scale

• A solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices & OOP patterns — and you mastered explaining these concepts to others

• Solid understanding of CI/CD and an integrated testing approach

• Experience with developing for AWS

• Owning your systems end-to-end and are comfortable performing incident management

• An excellent communicator and able to influence and cooperate with people at all levels

• You have a ‘can do’ attitude and you act proactively and not reactively

• Highly skilled in mentoring, coaching and training team members

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Recharge we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What We Offer🥳

• 30 days of holiday, a great pension scheme, and one of the best relocation packages in Amsterdam

• Flexible working hours and an office overlooking the Amstel

• Macbook Pro (13”or 15”)

• Budget for noise-cancelling headphones, travel to and from the office, working-from-home and self-learning

• Free healthy breakfast, lunch and snacks by our in-house chef

• Free Dutch classes to help out with daily life in the Netherlands

• Regular parties, pub quizzes, bingo sessions, celebrations and other events

The Process⚙️

1. Apply: Want in? Let us know! Apply for a role and help us get to know your best self.

2. Phone interview: One of our recruiters will get in touch to help you both understand if Recharge is the right next move for you.

3. Technical Phone Screen: You will work through one or two basic programming exercises with one of our Senior Software Engineers for 30 minutes.

4. General Technical Interview: During this 1 hour, you’ll be provided with a problem to solve. We’ll be focussing on assessing your problem solving skills, and also take note of your communication and commercial awareness.

5. Domain Specific Technical Interview: During this 1 hour, you’ll be provided with a problem or exercise specific to your domain.

6. Final Interview: The hiring manager & Director of Engineering,, will have an open discussion (1 hour) about your motivations, ambitions and general experience about working in technology.

7. Offer: You did it! There are only a few tickets available, and this one has your name on it. Welcome to the team.

Proactive acquisition from 3rd parties is not appreciated.