The Stager team and office feel like a second home. Like family
Netherlands
/ Part-time
Principal Engineer
Stager
Rotterdam
/ Part-time
40 - 40 (per week)
€ 5000 - € 6250 (per month)
5+ years
Product
Why work at Stager
As a Principal Engineer, you help shape the technical strategy and safeguard the company’s long-term vision. With deep expertise and strong analytical skills, you support complex technical decision-making, coach other developers, improve developer ergonomics, and strengthen the tech culture. You work closely with the product team to build sustainable solutions and design scalable, maintainable systems where quality, security, and performance come first.
About the Stager Application
The Stager application is primarily built in Kotlin, on top of the RePlay framework (a fork of Play1). RePlay provides useful features like routing, plugins, Hibernate ORM, and Groovy-based templates. However, we are transitioning to more type-safe solutions such as jOOQ for SQL, kotlinx.html for views, and OpenAPI for our APIs. We’re also modernizing our frontend: moving away from React and jQuery and increasingly building in Elm—for greater safety and easier maintenance. These changes pave the way for eventually moving away from the RePlay framework to a more suitable alternative. Additionally, Stager includes a separate waiting room service that activates ahead of the ticket shop during peak traffic. This service operates independently of the monolithic application and uses Redis.
You get all the freedom and space to be yourself and to grow.
Travel
You’ll visit festivals and events—and occasionally travel internationally too.
Personal Growth
All the guidance, training, and motivation you need to develop yourself.
Second home
About
Stager
Under the wings of cultural platform WORM and tech developer Lunatech, we started developing our ambitious project: an all-in-one system for event organizers.
After this startup phase, we’ve grown into a trusted name in the events industry. Today, we work with hundreds of music venues, theatres, festivals, and party organizers across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
We dream of a world where events are organized and tickets are sold through Stager everywhere.
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Culture + Roots
Stager originated from the cultural scene in Rotterdam. Various venues and festivals needed more control over their operations and were paying excessive fees for ticketing. Together, we came up with an online tool to run our organizations more efficiently — and that became Stager.
Men / Women
80 / 20 %
Colleagues
19
Language
Dutch & English
Average age
28
Our colleagues in words.
Meet Mac.
Hey, I'm Mac. During the COVID period, I started as an intern at Stager for my CMD studies and quickly made myself indispensable. Officially, I'm a software tester, but I also design communication materials, handle support issues, and collaborate with the product owner to develop new features. On crisp days, you'll find me wearing my WD40 scarf at the craft beer stand at the Oogstmarkt, and in the evenings I'm often at concerts—mostly noisy guitar bands, though I secretly have a soft spot for vaporwave.
The application process.
Your application
Let us know you’re interested by applying for this role!
Phone-call interview
We’ll meet over the phone
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1st interview
1st interview in Rotterdam
2nd interview
2nd interview with the team
Job offer
You’ll receive a job offer!
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