Senior Backend Engineer, Appical
Between €4.600,- and €6.500
Delivering employee centric onboarding experiences
Be an early applicant
Delivering employee centric onboarding experiences
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Between €4.600,- and €6.500
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies give new employees a great onboarding experience.
Role
Who you are
- Have 6–10+ years building production software (ideally SaaS) with substantial time in Ruby/Rails or a comparable MVC framework and are ready to be fully productive quickly
- Can design and evolve APIs, schemas, and background processing at scale; you think in data flows, failure modes, and operability
- Are fluent in automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract), performance profiling, and pragmatic refactoring
- Communicate trade-offs clearly (speed vs. scope vs. tech debt) while keeping customer value front and center
- Enjoy mentoring, leading by influence, and upleveling a team’s practices without adding unnecessary ceremony
- Bonus: experience with AWS, Docker, or other cloud-native tooling; exposure to React is a plus
- Education is great, but equivalent practical experience speaks loudest
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the design and evolution of the services that power Appical’s onboarding platform
- Your work will shape how hundreds of customer organizations welcome new hires and support their journeys.
- You’ll work primarily in Ruby on Rails, own critical services end-to-end, and drive pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- In this role, you'll be joining the Product & Development team
- Lead the design, implementation, and rollout of backend features and platform capabilities in Ruby on Rails, with a bias for shipping value in small, measurable increments
- Own system quality, performance, reliability, security, and cost. Instrument services, define SLOs, and use observability to guide improvements
- Evolve APIs and data models to remain fast, reliable, and secure as customer volumes grow. Champion clear contracts and backwards-compatible changes
- Break down complex work with product and design, shape scope, and provide crisp estimates and trade-off recommendations
- Raise engineering standards: improve CI/CD, test strategy, documentation, and post-incident learning. Model thoughtful code reviews and pair when it helps the team move faster
- Mentor engineers: share context, review designs, and help others grow from good to great
- Contribute to our journey toward a more modular service architecture (e.g., extracting and hardening boundaries where it unlocks speed and autonomy)
Our take
Appical is an onboarding platform supporting employees through all phases of the employment process. It empowers users to create the best possible employee onboarding experiences through how-to videos, gamification, quizzes, to-do lists, and documentation.
A leader in onboarding tech, the company is both digitising and simplifying the process. It has served hundreds of customers in over 140 countries, including the like of PepsiCo, HP, Heineken, Hello Fresh and Bosch.
In 2022, Appical was acquired by Visma, a Norwegian company providing business software and services for accounting and administration. With Visma's products being complimentary to Appical's platform, the two companies are in a position of great value within the European market.
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Company
Company benefits
- Innovative and creative scale-up
- Macbook
- Phone contribution or iPhone with SIM
- Open, inclusive & diverse culture
- Epic team events & office parties
- Office in Amsterdam
- Paternity leave
- Appical Swag
- Flexible working hours
- Daily fresh lunch at the office
- Travel reimbursement
- Referral bonus
- 25 vacation days
- Learning platform with 300+ courses
- Bike plan
- Pension scheme
- Fitness membership offer
- Remote working
Company HQ
Buiksloterham, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Wietske van Hees
(Managing Director)https://www.linkedin.com/in/wietskevanhees/
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