Senior Platform Engineer – Backend services

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 standardized services and help other teams to offer theirs. Together with two other squads, we accelerate other engineers in Rabobank during their development journey by providing our platform services to 1000+ engineers working on backend applications.

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 responsibilities

• Design and build platform services that accelerate engineers during development and reduce life cycle management of applications at scale.
• Own the full lifecycle (DevOps): CI/CD, automated testing, deployments, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Engineer for scale and 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 and enable pair/mob programming 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’ experience in building platform services, preferably for backend applications on stacks like Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot.
• Ownership and collaboration: you take responsibility, take initiative, communicate clearly, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Strong platform mindset: turning functionalities into platform services feels natural to you.
• Strong DevOps mindset: CI/CD, infrastructure as code concepts, automated testing (unit/integration/performance), deployments, monitoring, alerting.
• 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

• GoLang experience.
• 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.