Senior Java Backend Software Engineer, Creative Fabrica
+ Equity-based incentive plan
3-5 days a week in office
Creative assets marketplace
Open for applications
Creative assets marketplace
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity-based incentive plan
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To craft exceptional tools, fueled by AI, and premium content for creators and crafters, guiding them from inspiration to creation.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing, deploying and supporting production code for high-volume, low latency Enterprise applications, with preference to SaaS or global ecommerce
- Proficient Java/ Kotlin, with deep knowledge of JVM, experienced in building highly performant distributed systems using microservices and message-driven architecture
- Practical experience of relational and NoSQL databases. Familiarity with search and recommendation engines, and modern graph/vector databases is a big advantage
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and cloud data / compute infrastructure in general
- Experience designing, building and operating microservices and associated APIs
- Strong understanding and commitment to software development best practices, including code quality standards, modularity/DDD, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Desirable
- Experience in building high-traffic B2B / B2C products, particularly SaaS and global marketplaces/ecommerce
- Experience working with large scale search and recommendation engines
- Experience with gradual rollouts
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a significant role in the development and delivery of products that power up the Creative Fabrica’s growing crafting community
- Build a completely new platform from the ground up to manage the content lifecycle, licensing, and discoverability of over 20 million products. Harness modern data technologies to create advanced, personalized search and recommendation engines
- Build and maintain APIs powering up web applications behind Creative Fabrica
- Take responsibility for component technical designs and deliver quality code
- Be an integral part of a Content team, come up with ideas, analyze usage data and build products customers love
- Tech Stack: AWS, Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, NextJS SSR, GRPC(incl. streaming), S3, various storages (both SQL/noSQL)
Our take
The experience of buying assets for creative work is a major pain point - it can take an extremely long time to find just what you need for a project, and then licensing and pricing can be difficult to navigate. Creative Fabrica was founded in 2016 to make things simpler, with an easy-to-navigate user interface and vastly simplified subscription plans with commercial licensing included. Originally offering just fonts, it has swiftly grown into a marketplace listing all kinds of creative assets built by its community of over 4 million users.
Creative Fabrica is not alone in bidding for a slice of the £85 billion creator economy, and faces competiton from other asset stores such as Etsy, Adobe and Envato. However its competitors focus mostly on creatives purchasing assets for professional use, while Creative Fabrica also serves the large hobbyist market. It is also unique in providing generative AI tools, allowing its users to create images from prompts and offer them for sale in the market.
Creative Fabrica completed a funding round led by Alven in 2023. This will be invested in expanding the company's network of designers, further developing its generative AI tools and hiring senior talent. In the shorter term, it is looking to grow its market presence internationally and become the predominant online ecosystem for creatives and creators.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
49% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2023
$48.8m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.4m
Company benefits
- Top-Notch Tools and Gear: You'll be equipped with everything you need: a top-of-the-line laptop, the latest collaboration tools, and stylish accessories to match.
- Awesome Office: Based in a beautiful office in the center, working here means delicious lunches cooked by our very own chefs, plus access to our own CF library to keep the learning going.
- And a great team: We work hard and have fun together. On Fridays, we kick off the weekend together at the local bar, but there's more; we regularly organize events and company trips, creating opportunities to bond and build meaningful connections.
Company values
- Be the best version of yourself
- Make it work
- Genuinely Care
Company HQ
Jordaan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Anca Stefan
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded Responsive. Was also CTO of CrowdyHouse and a Java Software Engineer for Finalist.
Roemie Hillenaar
(CEO)Previously co-founded Responsive SRL and Toolchain. Before that was CPO at CrowdyHouse and Product Manager (Mobile) at Hyves.
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