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Engineering Lead

Blackbear
Netherlands / Full-time
Netherlands / Full-time
36 - 40 (per week)
€ 5000 - € 7000 (per month)
5+ years
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Benefits
Required skills
Company info

What’s in it for you?

  • Base salary between €5.000 and €7.000, based on knowledge and experience. Vacation allowance of 8% paid on a monthly basis and 25 paid vacation days.
  • Pension plan contribution by blackbear and solid parental leave policies.
  • You’re part of one of the fastest-growing Tech companies in The Netherlands.
  • Hybrid working: 3 days remote and 2 days in the office per week (our future is looking remote).
  • Healthy lunches and snacks are provided in our office.
  • An international working environment with driven colleagues and ample social activities.

What skills do you have?

 
  • 6+ years of experience as developer and proven experience in a leadership role, both in managing IT projects and in guiding and mentoring a team of developers.
  • Proficiency in MySQL, Vue3, and Tailwind CSS. In-depth knowledge of the Laravel ecosystem, common packages, and first-party components.
  • Vast experience with agile methodologies that allows you to improve our development processes to be as efficient as possible.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills throughout all levels of an organisation and with external clients and the ability to seamlessly bring ideas and opinions together into one solid advice or decision.
  • A strong decision-maker who takes ownership of projects.
  • Ability to balance strategy with hands-on involvement. You know how to translate needs and current challenges into Tech strategies and ideas, after which you implement these together with your team.
  • You are available from June onwards and based in the Netherlands with the ability to commute to our office in Schiphol-Rijk.

Company information

  • Your one-stop-shop for flexible work. Blackbear is a digital, plug-and-play solution. We enable managers and companies to easily find and work with flexible resources to support their teams with work they lack time or skills for.
  • Blackbear is a scale-up with a distinct character.
  • HQ in Schiphol-Rijk
     

Why work at blackbear.

Join our team as a Engineering Lead at blackbear, where you'll drive our technological vision and team growth. This role blends hands-on technical expertise with managerial responsibilities, allowing you to shape the future of our Tech team and blackbear’s technological landscape. 

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How we work
Our culture thrives on empowerment and hands-on learning. Our success stems from a strong sense of purpose, empowerment, collaborative efforts, and mutual trust, all driving us towards our ambitious goals.
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Desire for action
Individually and as a collective, we are solutions oriented. We aim for growth and think entrepreneurially.
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Challenge the status quo
We think big and envision the future success of our projects and ideas; challenge the status quo by constantly exploring new solutions and ideas.
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Empower each other
We pride ourselves in empowering each other through trust, amplifying our strengths and putting each other at the centre of everything we do.

About
blackbear

We know the struggles faced in finding flexible work solutions - we’ve experienced it first-hand. That's why we're dedicated to bridging capacity gaps with tailored solutions by offering a platform ready for the future of work.

Our platform connects organizations with freelance talent, enabling flexible, secure, and efficient work without sacrificing quality. By blending agency and freelance work seamlessly, we're reshaping the future of work. At blackbear, we're not just filling capacity gaps; we're redefining how work gets done.

Blackbear is a scale-up with a distinct character. Everyone who works with us shares the same drive for excellence and growth. Now, as we gear up to take our services global, it's time to supercharge our tech efforts. We want to shake things up, push boundaries, and take our success to a whole new level.

Currently, we're transitioning our organisation to a product-centric approach and expanding our development team. If you're an experienced Engineering Lead eager to contribute your skills and creativity to our mission, we'd love to hear from you. Let's shape the future of work together!

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Culture and
Value

- Foster collaboration
- Strive for excellence
- Embrace ownership
- No place for bullsh*t
- Fun to work with

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Men / Women

70 / 30 %

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Colleagues

30

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Language

English

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Average age

28

An example of
a day at blackbear

Your main tasks

Leading our Engineering team: take charge of guiding a team of developers to deliver high-quality solutions, and mentoring them to ensure they keep challenging and developing themselves.

Maintaining, developing, running & improving our platform: facilitate the team in technical and project delivery decisions and spearhead the development of new features for our web platform.

Scaling our team: leverage your experience in leading teams within start-up environments to scale the team, foster innovation, and drive growth in a dynamic and fast-paced setting.

Optimising operations: use your expertise in agile environments to increase team efficiency and collaboration, while optimizing and streamlining our processes within the team and with our stakeholders.

Supporting the organisation: Identify, troubleshoot, solve complex problems logically and systematically to enable the organisation to grow and become more efficient.

Driving solutions: collaborate within the team and with our stakeholders to translate ideas into unique, human experiences for current and future end-users.

Your career path

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Head of Engineering 

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CTO

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Their Mission

Enabling organisations and professionals to work together seamlessly in a collaborative ecosystem

Colleagues in our own words

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Joep W.

Co-Founder, CEO 

Hi, I'm Joep, Co-Founder of blackbear. My Co-Founder Stefan and I launched blackbear to address a common challenge in today's labour market: the need for flexibility and quality in work. Our mission is to change the way the world gets work done.

The application process.

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Your application
Let us know you’re interested by applying for this role!
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Phone-call interview
We’ll meet over the phone
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1st interview
Initial chat with our People Business Partner to discuss your motivation, experience and the position to assess if there is a mutual fit for the role.
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2nd interview
An interview with our Head of Product to further discuss your profile and motivation for the role. Here you get the opportunity to deep-dive into the position, the team and the vision for the future.
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Third interview
A technical interview with our development team to understand your general motivation for the role, followed by a one-part coding exercise, completed as peer programming to assess your relevant technical experience and experience how we would collaborate.
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Cultural Check
You will have a conversation with one of our founders to get a sense of what we’re planning as a company, assess the cultural fit and see what future opportunities can be in store for you. Additionally, you will have a meeting with the team to get to know each other and ensure there’s a personal and professional match.
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Office located in Schiphol-Rijk

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Address

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Beechavenue 30, 1119 PV Schiphol-Rijk

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