Delphi Developer

About Albelli

Join one of the fastest growing companies in Amsterdam and work together with an international team, passionate about inspiring people to relive and share life’s moments through personalized photo products. With customer centricity at our core, we are driven by quality, creativity, innovation, development and providing the best customer experience anytime, anywhere.

We are Albelli, specialists in photo products and experts in building intuitive software to create them. Albelli is the consumer brand of Albumprinter, which was launched in 2003. We started selling photo books in the Netherlands and soon expanded into other markets and broadened our portfolio, to include other products like wall art and calendars.

Position

You will join a team of 2 Delphi developers, 1 QA, Scrum Master, and Product Owner. This team is responsible for rapidly improving and maintaining our Windows client software as well as offering 3rd line support to our customers, working closely together with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, stakeholders, and the UX team to get the best results.

This team has won numerous awards for the Windows client photobook editor.  The Windows client software is responsible for a large percentage of our overall revenue; this is where most customers design their photobooks.

What we have been working on

• Connecting to new API’s for Artificial Intelligence (easy photo book creation)
• Implementing a new API for storage of photo books.
• Connecting to a new API for the handling of clipart, backgrounds, etc.
• Performance improvement of the software by implementing multithreading in different parts of the editor.
• Ease of use: We are constantly researching together with our UI/UX experts and our customers on how we can improve the customer experience in our editor

Your responsibilities

• Assess functional requests presented by the Product Owner and supplement them with technical designs
• Develop new features and support our client application in Delphi.
• Research developments in the industry. Propose, design, and implement architectural improvements based on your learnings. 
• Support the team with implementing changes. 
• Alert QA about possible risks of changes.
• Communicate with the Product Owner and other stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Continuously look for ways to improve and develop yourself. Learn other programming languages, frameworks, design patterns, tools etcetera, and suggest what we can do to improve our way of working.

Your qualification

• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar position. 
• Have been in a position where you have been a tech lead and helped others develop
• A strong desire to develop yourself and become the best in your area. 
• Expert in Delphi.
• Expert knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming.
• Agile mindset
• Hands-on experience with continuous delivery & continuous integration/continuous deployment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge IT and business.
• Excellent command of the English language (both written and verbally)

Will be a plus

Desirable 

• Experience with other OO languages, such as C# or Java.
• Experience with web languages (HTML/CSS/JS and JS frameworks).
• Experience with TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy
   

What we offer

• Freedom to experiment with technologies
• Competitive compensation, relocation support and benefits
• Learning & Development budget for personal development
• An international office hosting over 35 nationalities and centrally located in one of Europe's most vibrant cities
• An informal, fun and driven culture as well as a healthy work-life balance
• Agile working environment with regular dev days, chapter days and team building activities as well as a social atmosphere with communal lunch, Friday drinks, parties, sports events, hackathons etc.