Job Description
Do you want to help create and build the best
fantasy football experience in the world? Are you hands on with a
problem-solving mindset and the drive to make it work? And you’d like to
work with a skilled and dedicated team of football nuts that love what
they’re doing? Then this is your dream job.
What are we building?
At
Kickstox we have the modest goal of reinventing fantasy football and
transforming it into a 24/7, real time game that allows football fans to
meet, greet and compete. For this we have created the Kickstox exchange
where users can trade fictional stocks of their favourite football
players, check how they perform in real-time, compete in different
competition formats and challenge their friends to prove them they know
best about football, every day – every play!
Technical Heart at Kickstox
We
need you to be the best of both worlds; a manager who takes complete
control of the Tech team and also a creative, senior back-end developer
that is not afraid to get his or her hands dirty. The foundations have
been laid but the quest to expand and improve is never ending and for
that we look to you. You are in charge of reaching the milestones,
building responsive and elegant web applications, improve usability and
customer experience and find solutions to the everyday challenges that
come up.
You will have a small team of different skill sets to manage with a high probability of expansion in the near future.
Your skills:
A great sense of ownership and responsibility
Insightfulness and a hawk’s eye for detail
Constant drive to grow fast and improve yourself
A problem-solving mindset that thinks in solutions
Resourcefulness, thinking creatively and optimistically
Proven experience with managing multi-talented and multi-national teams
Project management with teams of varying technical skills using scrum protocols
Full professional command of English (Dutch is a pro)
Profound working knowledge with:
▪ Go
▪ Postgres(TimescaleDB)
▪ Redis
▪ RabbitMQ
▪ MQTT/Websocket
Our infrastructure runs over Google Cloud Platform using Docker, Kubernetes and Gitlab. And is provisioned by Ansible.
And a love for the beautiful game is definitely a pro!
Location
Kickstox
is located the centre of Amsterdam on the Keizersgracht and is part of
the Nyenrode Incubator program. In this inspiring environment we work
together with 8 other companies in an easy and welcoming atmosphere. A
game of Ping-Pong for leisure and the Friday afternoon drinks are
recurring events.
What can we offer
As a key part of the
technical heart of the company you get the freedom to think and work out
new functions. Ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated and more
importantly, they are listened to. We want to expand and rapidly conquer
this market in the coming years. This offers opportunity for you to
become included in the success of the company.