Senior Backend Developer (Java)

About Asellion

Asellion is an Amsterdam based start-up that recently came from Germany. It’s our mission to bring progress, innovation and new commercial opportunities to the chemical industry. By enabling manufacturers and buyers to meet online. Via secure and branded webshops we help the industry to act faster, think leaner, sell more and waste less.

It’s our role to inspire the industry to think ahead. Embrace new ways of thinking and operating. We have to lead, guide and show them the future. Step by step. Fast or slow. What ever happens, Asellion will lead the way.

Our brand is therefore created around this leadership role. It’s a mentality more than anything. A way of looking at the world, at ourselves and what we want to accomplish. We have to be the engine, the source, the nucleus of change!

Position

Imagine yourself coming to work every day with a wide smile. Welcomed with a hug or a fist bump - whichever you prefer. You are joined by your new bubbly and international team. You are part of the back-end development team, helping develop our first microservice driven platform, with Java, Spring Boot and AWS.

Imagine a warm welcome to our agile sprints and retrospectives. Daniel will most probably be late but always with his head in the game. He is a true storyteller. Yvette has only joined our team 2 months ago and is more determined than ever. Adrian is wise. He always comes with new intel on the chemical industry. And Lars is friendly, calm and open minded. There are other team members for you to meet too.

If all goes as planned, we will revolutionize the chemical industry - big words, but true. We are a young startup pushing the limits of how B2B chemical buyers and sellers connect. Just imagine... bringing the way the chemical industry works to digital innovation, from traditional and analog to smooth and efficient. Building a platform and a service in 1. All to make the world a better and safer place.

Whatever happens in chemistry, Asellion will lead the way.

Your qualification

• An experienced Senior Back End Developer
• Confident with building complex web applications and I enjoy working with Java and Spring Boot
• Experienced with the core AWS offerings and with deployment tooling like Gitlab
• Aware of common best practices of microservices and API
• Dream big, work hard and make it happen
• Good communication skills
• A nice person to hang out with

You will participate in our agile development lifecycles from sprint-planning to retrospectives. With your fellow developers, you will help to optimize our back-end and develop our first microservice driven platform.

What we offer

• An unlimited vacation policy, for relaxation and traveling as long as work is done
• Welcoming and flexible office in the centre of Amsterdam
• Relocation support
• Commuting plan if you live further than 5 km from the office
• The team’s health insurance program at a discounted price
• A solid pension scheme

But wait, there's more: most importantly, let us, your future colleagues, tell you what we like here:

• Innovation: 'It is something completely new and being part of the creative process is something I was not part of before.'
• Inclusion: 'We work together, laugh together, play together.'
• Flexibility: 'No office hour obligations.'
• Self organization: 'Instead of top-down management, we’re giving individuals the freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to our purpose. People listen to you from the beginning and give trust that you can organize your own work.'
• Meaning: 'Doesn’t feel that we are only here to work. We work to improve the chemical industry (old and slow) and indirectly innovation and environment. Feels like everyone is involved.'
• Responsibility: 'If you can take this together with the freedom you will get the openness and trust from others to take it.'
• Learning and failing are embraced: 'We belief and support growth-mindset thinking and behavior, such as sharing information, collaborating, innovating, seeking feedback, or admitting errors. Also we are aiming for diversity in the company.'
• Passion: 'We are surrounded with like-minded people. Everything we do, every single day, every single action is to improve and guide our industry. We are literally obsessed with the future of materials.' '
• Technology and a solution that has an impact on people and expands throughout all of the world.'