Senior Platform Engineer - Backend services, Golang/Kotlin/Java

Senior Platform Engineer - Backend services, Golang/Kotlin/Java

You & your role

Working as a Senior platform Engineer, you’ll be joining Squad Clipper. As one of the platform teams within Tribe Digital Platform, we provide both our own reuseable integrations and help other teams to offer theirs. Together with two more teams we run a Life Cycle management system to offer, integrate and maintain our modules in production at scale.

If you love solving complex platform problems, shaping architecture, and enabling dozens of teams to move faster and safer, you’ll feel at home here.

Practical examples

• Accelerate delivery across Rabobank by providing reusable services, APIs, and patterns that remove friction for feature teams.
• Raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability for services running on Cloud Foundry, Azure, and AWS.
• Shape architecture and engineering standards in a place where quality, simplicity, and automation truly matter.
• Mentor and multiply: your best practices won’t just help your squad, they’ll scale across the organization.

Top responsibilites

• Design & build Life Cycle management system that delivers standardized modules to backend applications at scale.
• Own the full lifecycle (DevOps): CI/CD, automated testing, deployments, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Engineer for scale & performance: partitioning, caching, resiliency patterns, idempotency, and back‑pressure.
• Elevate observability with Splunk (logs), SignalFx (metrics), Dynatrace (metrics), and PagerDuty (alerting).
• Champion security and quality with SAST and dependency hygiene (Checkmarx, PMD, SonarQube, NexusIQ).
• Collaborate & enable: pair/mob program when it helps, guide feature teams, refine tech specs, and improve documentation.
• Contribute to architecture: challenge assumptions, identify simplifications, and co‑create solution designs with architects.
• Continuously improve our templates, starter kits, libraries, and golden paths so teams can build fast, and build right.

About Clipper

We are Clipper a small, high-impact engineering team within the Backend Foundation area of Rabobank’s Tribe Digital Platform. Our mission is to make life easier for product teams by delivering standardized, reliable and scalable integrations for the large number of backend services running on our platform.

Our Core Values:

• Trust: we build trust through transparency, reliability, and delivering on our promises.
• Collective Responsibility: we succeed as a team. We share ownership of outcomes and support each other to achieve them.
• Empathy: we listen, understand, and adapt to the needs of the teams we serve and the colleagues we work with.

You & your talent

Must‑haves

• 5+ years building back‑end applications with Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot. Or platform engineering serving these types of applications.
• Strong DevOps mindset: CI/CD, infra as code concepts, automated testing (unit/integration/performance), deployments, monitoring, alerting.
• Ownership & collaboration: you take responsibility, communicate clearly, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Architectural thinking and the confidence to spar with architects and challenge the status quo constructively.
• Problem solver with strong analytical skills and a bias for simplicity.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Nice-to-haves

• Containerization knowledge.
• Cloud Foundry operations and patterns.
• Azure Entra ID experience
• Azure DevOps at scale (pipelines, multi‑stage, environments).
• SSL/TLS experience implementing certificate-related automation

How We Work (Culture & Ways of Working)

• Small, proactive, high‑ownership team with a strong engineering culture.
• Pair/mob when it helps, solo when it’s faster; pragmatic, not dogmatic.
• Security, reliability, and observability baked in from day one.
• Continuous improvement: we measure, learn, and iterate.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.