Java Software Engineer

Location: Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Department: Property & Casualty

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

We are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to help us build new functionality and add improvements to our software. If you have an eye for writing code and are interested in agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you!

Key About Your Role

As a Software Engineer within a scrum team you use high quality code to solve complex puzzles. You collaborate with design engineers and test engineers to create new functionality for our customers and add internal improvements to our software. Together with the other members of your scrum team, you take full responsibility for a vital part of the software. You strive to deliver only solid solutions by optimizing their performance, usability and testability, and you are proud of the products that you create. You analyze complex problems by actively cooperating with colleagues from various teams and find the best solution by combining the different insights. As a part of a large community of fellow software engineers you are always looking for opportunities to keep improving your coding skills, and by doing so, improve our software and code base.

Key About Your Team

The Configurations Cluster consists of two Scrum teams: ACCUrate and PRODUCTive. Their primary responsibility is to enable insurance companies to configure insurance products tailored to their specific needs. This functionality is vital to our business. 

Check out our blog posts and videos to see what it is like to work at Keylane. 

About Keylane Property & Casualty

As the leading European supplier of robust, highly configurable and customer-centric SaaS platforms to the insurance industry, Keylane offers solutions that optimise today’s business processes, unburdens our clients and empowers them to be future-fit and agile.

With Axon, we aim to foster trust and empower lasting partnerships by providing an all-in-one SaaS platform that ensures a 24/7 uptime for our customers. We provide and implement continuous upgrades at no additional costs, guaranteeing that our customers are able to comply with the latest rules and regulations. Coupled with our commitment to backwards compatibility, we are a partner our clients can rely on with a platform that always delivers.

Requirements

• You have experience with large technical ecosystems using Java, IntelliJ, Git, Gradle, Angular, Docker;

• You have experience in working with SQL and databases (DB2, PostgreSQL);
• You are used to creating and performing unit, system and integration tests as part of your development work;
• You understand the agile way of working, tools and techniques;
• You have an eye for writing code with attention for performance, scalability and maintainability;
• It’s a plus if you have experience with or interest in CICD (Teamcity, Bash, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, etc.);
• You are passionate about your code. You love to put your strong analytical skills to the test whilst working closely together with your team.

*A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) and reference check are part of the application process.

Benefits

• Starting with a monthly gross salary for a junior candidate between €3,000 and € 4,000 based on 40 hours per week;

• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary;
• A profit share;              
• A pension scheme, with the option to save extra;
• Travel reimbursement: Receive a mileage allowance of €0.23 per km or an NS Business Card, which can also be used for personal travel;
• 24 holiday days (with the option to buy extra) and 7 inclusion days, which can be exchanged with fixed Dutch national holidays, allowing you to take them when you like;
• Flexibility in working environment. As part of a hybrid working team, you will work partly from home and partly from the office. If you work in the office, a free lunch is waiting for you every day. If you work from home, you will receive a working from home allowance (€ 4 net per day) and internet allowance (€ 35 net per month);
• The possibility of working remotely from abroad for up to 2 months per year;
• The possibility to lease a bike through our bike leasing program;
• A one-year contract that, subject to satisfactory performance, will be converted into a permanent contract;
• The opportunity to develop yourself at our Academy through courses and training, both professionally and personally;
• A comprehensive vitality offer to help you stay healthy. Read more here;
• An active and fun community of ‘Keylaners’. We also have after work drinks at our in-house pub every Thursday.