Senior Frontend Developer, Rentman
Team Financial
Salary not provided
+ A “13th month” annual bonus based on company results
Angular 14+
Mid and Senior level
Amsterdam
Office located in Utrecht, NL
Event & media production management
Open for applications
Event & media production management
21-100 employees
B2BHRAnalyticsEventsSaaSMedia
Open for applications
Salary not provided
+ A “13th month” annual bonus based on company results
Angular 14+
Mid and Senior level
Amsterdam
Office located in Utrecht, NL
21-100 employees
B2BHRAnalyticsEventsSaaSMedia
Company mission
To make work for event service providers easier and more productive.
Role
Who you are
- 3 years of experience as a senior in a "product-led" development team/SaaS company
- Proven experience in contributing to a user-friendly solution
- Proven experience dealing with complex business rules and data models
- Proven accountability for feature development solution & success
- Positive mindset towards using AI in the development toolchain (The development landscape is changing rapidly, and at Rentman we’re open to exploring how this can benefit us in our day-to-day work)
- For us, having Angular experience is a nice-to-have. At Rentman we believe that every good developer understands that a framework is a tool to help achieve results, and that you can always learn a new framework if you have strong fundamentals
What the job involves
- When you attend a festival you always notice the big stages, loud music, and hard-working people at the venue, but behind every successful event there are always the important steps that need to happen before anything can start rolling
- The earliest stages of building an event is a back-and-forth sales process, where quotes are negotiated over, adjusted, and readjusted to come to a final quote which contains all agreements on how to best make the event come to life in a successful way
- And of course, what's quoted must be invoiced: without this flow of money the whole industry would come to a halt
- In the financial team you are responsible for ensuring that our customers can stay on top of their profitability, have professional-looking customer communication, and are compliant with all their local and international laws and regulations by maintaining cost-calculation systems, a highly-customizable document template editor, maintaining integrations with several payment providers and bookkeeping softwares (such as Xero, Quickbooks and Exact Online), and connections with local regulators such as VeriFACTU (for spain) and Peppol (European wide)
- Because every company has a different way of working, it is important for the financial functionalities to be very flexible, while always staying correct, because when it comes to money and official documents there is no room for mistakes
- The roadmap of the financial team is quite extensive, but here are a few features that you could have worked on:
- Purchase orders:
- A Purchase Order is a legal contract lots of companies use to determine types, prices, and quantities of any equipment that is needed, or services that have to be provided by an external supplier. It is essential that information is clear, and correct as this data is legally binding
- You can imagine that every freelancer you need on a job needs a contract which outlines what work they will do, and how much they will get paid for it
- The challenging aspect of Purchase Orders was that it is a document that can contain a lot of different types of information, and therefore touches all other parts of the system
- It can have equipment, labour, subrentals, and general costs
- All these costs need to stay in-sync with changes in the software, but always need to be approved by an authorized user before it can be sent to a supplier
- Having a good UX for adding, viewing and managing these costs, and a clear approval process was fundamental for this functionality
- Online quotes:
- For our customers, every detail counts when it comes to planning new productions and trying to win more business
- The first financial contact point is sending the client a quote, but once it’s emailed, it often vanishes into the unknown: Did they open the quote? Are they actively reviewing it or has it been forgotten? When’s the right moment to follow up?
- With online quotes we’ve built a double-sided solution that gives both a great end-user experience, but also very valuable insights into engagement with the quotes for our customers, and allows in-system communication with their clients to never lose track of what has been communicated
- Online quotes was a challenging feature in terms of UX, because every company wants to be able to control their own “face” to their customers. Their documents are highly personalized, and the online quoting environment needs to look and run in perfect condition
- Technically it was also challenging because it was built on-top of an already existing (but less feature-rich) quoting and online-signing platform, which had to keep working without interruption
- Our way of working:
- Rentman currently has 5 self-sufficient development teams, with plans to expand to 7 in the near future to realise all of our product goals
- The teams we currently have are:
- Team financials (You are here!)
- Team equipment (See our open position here)
- Team project management - Responsible for our soon-to-be-released Organize product
- Team crew - Responsible for all crew needs. Planning, budgets, and time tracking
- Team lifecycle - Responsible for everything related to onboarding and customer health
- We strive to have all development teams self-sufficient and self-structured. A perfect development team consists of 2 frontend developers, 2 backend developers, a product owner, a QA engineer and a designer
- While every team is free to set their own structure and goals, currently all teams work in a traditional scrum way. 2 week sprints, with a retro to end the sprint
- Customer understanding is important at Rentman, so we facilitate visiting warehouses, interacting with customers at our “Rentman live” events, and joining various trade shows to hear first-hand from our customers how they experience our software
- Our tech stack in a nutshell:
- Our front-end is an Angular based SPA with over 3.500 components. It is based on a custom-made design system, and the main data-views are powered by AG-Grid
- We strive to stay up-to-date with all latest developments, and we usually migrate to the latest Angular versions within 2 weeks of a new release
- We smartly process thousands of item records in the front-end caching layer, and actively keep client states in sync through a custom made websocket structure
- Our back-end is a custom-made PHP framework, with a queryable API interface similar to GraphQL (but we built ours before GraphQL existed )
- We take development-at-scale very seriously, and have fully typed our frontend, and even have a custom-made php-to-typescript system so that our frontend-to-backend communication is also properly typed
Application process
- Here's a breakdown of our recruitment process to give you a clear idea of what to expect:
- Call with recruiter an introduction to Rentman & the process (30 mins)
- Interview about Past Experience & Culture. Showcase work/code you’re proud of (45 mins). Afterwards, a conversational assessment with a developer (Refine an issue, review a design, pair-review a PR) (45 mins)
- These interviews will be in the same session
Our take
Events are a major part of any industry, and require a lot of logistics and organisation. Rentman has capitalised on the necessity and difficulty of events by building a software platform that supports the events and media production industry in managing their people and equipment.
Event management and production teams can use Rentmans cloud-based software to manage gear and crew, all from one central base of operations, with features including scheduling, invoicing, reporting and tracking. Thus, the many moving parts of an event are centralised and streamlined - whether for a corporate live streaming broadcast or a wedding.
Rentman’s 250,000 strong user base has spread to over 100 countries, evidencing the company’s savvy and vital niche in the event software market. A spinout from Utrecht University, the company remained bootstrapped up until 2023 when it raised an impressive funding round that will allow it to grow through acquisitions and develop more products.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 2023
$23.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $23.7m
Company benefits
- Work with an ambitious, young and inclusive international team
- A “13th month” annual performance bonus based on company results
- 25 days of paid vacation
- Hybrid WFH policy & work from anywhere 4 weeks a year
- Annual training budget
- Fun team activities
- A Pension plan with a monthly contribution from us as your employer
- Group health benefits through ManuLife
- After 5 years employment you get a paid sabbatical of 4 weeks
- An amazing open and light office at the centre of Toronto
Company HQ
Nobelstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands
Leadership
Roy van den Broek
(CEO)Previously Sound Engineer at RvdB Geluidstechniek, and Backend Developer at Softmedia Interactive.
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