Backend Engineer

Development, Amsterdam, NL

About the Team

Miro is on a mission to empower teams to create the next big thing. Our platform facilitates visual collaboration for millions of users daily, enabling them to brainstorm, design, and bring ideas to life. We're looking for a passionate and skilled Software Engineer (BE focus) to join Tables team in Amsterdam.

Tables team (Structured Modes stream) is at the forefront of Miro's structured widget capabilities. We are a small, highly experienced group responsible for enabling our customers to visualize and interact with first and third-party structured content directly on the canvas. Our work is foundational, driving the seamless movement between multiple stages and accelerating Miro's adoption in the definition and delivery phases of innovation. We thrive on tackling complex technical challenges within our core canvas collaboration ecosystem, powering critical structured formats like Tables, Timelines, Kanban View and Documents, as well as high-impact integrations such as Jira.

About the Role

As an Software Engineer for the Tables team, you will step into a pivotal role at the heart of Miro's collaborative canvas. This opportunity arises from the immense growth and strategic importance of structured tabular content within our platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our BE services that power all our tabular capabilities across the entire collaborative platform (e.g. Table, Kanban View, Timeline, etc).

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define, design and implement new capabilities in the domain including bringing new ideas and designing solutions from start to finish
  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services in the team domain using Java, Kotlin, Canvas, WS and related technologies (sometimes FE technologies, e.g. Typescript and React etc)
  • Contribute to the overall architecture and technical direction of the team domain, ensuring our engineering ecosystem meet the evolving needs of our growing user base
  • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, adhering to best practices and coding standards
  • Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing sessions in the stream
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring high availability and performance of our services
  • Contribute to improving our development processes and tools

What you’ll need

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a proven track record of leading initiatives within complex, large-scale environments (more focus on BE)
  • Excellent knowledge of Java and related technologies (e.g. Maven, Spring Boot etc)
  • Excellent knowledge of relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as PostgreSQL
  • Working knowledge of Javascript and related FE technologies (React, Typescript, Webpack etc)
  • Working knowledge of creating high-performance interfaces using fundamental rendering technologies such as WebGL, Canvas API or related 2D graphics libraries (e.g. PixiJS, Skia etc)
  • Experience in developing interactive products with realtime technologies (e.g. Websocket)
  • Experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache etc)
  • Working basic knowledge of infra technologies and processes (deployment, contracts, gRPC etc) to co-design solutions with our other engineers
  • Working knowledge of microservices architecture
  • Working knowledge of distributed event stream platforms for high-performance data pipelines (e.g. Kafka etc)

What's in it for you

  • Competitive equity package
  • Medical insurance coverage
  • Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
  • Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
  • Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
  • Travel allowance for your commute
  • Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
  • Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam

About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

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At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

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  • 01. Recruiter Screen

    A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.

  • 02. Hiring Manager

    The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.

  • 03. Skill Assesment

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