Full Stack Software Engineer

RIPEstat team – Hybrid: from home and our office at Amsterdam Central station.

Full-time: based on 37.5 hours per week (working part-time is possible).

Salary: between EUR 49,000 to EUR 65,000 plus excellent secondary benefits (see below).

Important: you should be living in the Netherlands.

At the RIPE NCC, we develop specialised software that has a significant impact on the core of the Internet. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you’ll become part of a diverse and talented team and work on projects that contribute to this cause. If you are a Software Engineer and want to become a part of our team, then this is the place for you!

RIPEstat is a large-scale information service and the open data platform of the RIPE NCC. It houses essential information on internet routing (BGP), IP address space, and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) along with related statistics on specific hostnames and countries.

Our ideal candidate thrives in an agile and evolving environment and is excited to help shape solutions along the way. Whether you’re a junior engineer with deep interest or experience in our domain, or an intermediate engineer with a broader technical background, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, you will:

• Be involved in defining pragmatic and maintainable technical solutions for challenging problems
• Develop new features, working on the frontend and backend
• Maintain and extend our existing services
• Write, test, and deploy your code
• Create and collaborate on UI designs, making the UIs of our services more performant, easier to use, and meaningful to our users
• Work with our DevOps engineers to maintain and improve our build and deployment processes in an agile working environment
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers from a content perspective

What we expect from you:

• Programming language experience in Python or another dynamic language
• Experience in developing client-side (e.g., browser-based) UIs using modern HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, etc., as well as experience with UI frameworks such as lit-html/Vue/React/etc.
• Solid understanding of UI and UX aspects
• Interest in the topic of basic networking protocols, especially TCP/IP, DNS, and BGP
• Good command of English, both written and spoken
• Ability to carry out tasks individually as well as collaboratively as a team

It would be nice if you have:

• Working knowledge of relevant client-side languages, tools, and frameworks such as JavaScript, d3, vega-lite, etc.
• Experience working with column-based or time-series datasets with a significant size
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience building data-intensive or (scientific) data visualisation dashboards
• Understanding of ISP operations, tools, and issues

What you can expect from us:

• A modern, flexible and informal work environment with an emphasis on a healthy work/life balance
• Flexible work-from-home policy, so you can arrange your weekly office and work-from-home days in a way that works for you. Working from abroad for a number of days per year is also possible
• An annual salary between EUR 49,000 to EUR 65,000 (before tax). This includes the standard 8% annual “holiday pay”.
• Excellent secondary benefits: 5% end-of-year allowance, annual budgets for health, transportation and technology purposes, non-contributory pension scheme, paid parental leave, top-tier health insurance coverage for you and your family and 33 vacation days (full-time 37.5 hours)
• A generous training budget each year that can be used for professional development
• An in-house free barista providing healthy varied lunches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and nice breakfasts on Thursdays, plus regular office drinks.

About the RIPE NCC

The RIPE NCC is a not-for-profit organisation founded on the belief that the Internet should be governed openly, transparently and together with the wider Internet community. We are one of the oldest Internet organisations in Europe and are proud of our legacy.

Our strength is our staff. We bring together more than 180 people from over 40 countries in our modern, vibrant office in the east wing of Amsterdam Central Station. Currently, we have a hybrid way of working and allow our staff to work from their homes and the office. Our official working language is English, but our colleagues speak more than 30 languages.

Our backgrounds are diverse, but our goal is the same: we work for the good of the Internet. Will you join us?

How to apply

If interested, please click the ‘Apply’ button and submit your CV and cover letter in English. Adding a cover letter is highly important and appreciated, our team read them carefully.

Not ready to apply yet? Then send an email to openings@ripe.net and we can have an informal chat with our recruiter or one of our software engineers.

At the RIPE NCC, we are proud to serve our members and the RIPE community in 76 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. We celebrate unique perspectives and talents from different backgrounds and cultures. So if you\'re passionate about what you do and want to help shape the future of the Internet, apply now - we\'d love to hear your story.