GlobalOrange

Global Orange

• SaaS Projects
• Hybrid is possible –> Working remote for an extended period also e.g. a month
• 55/60 people working in the office near Amsterdam Central Station
• Their office is in a renovated church
• IND Referent
• They are looking for preferably an international within the Netherlands –> to diversify their current overly Dutch team
• Nice products of high quality –> blueprints –> not cutting edge <– new person has influence on this
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17WNxizhPg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKp2A54PIc
• https://www.globalorange.nl/en

Personality

• Down to earth
• Be able to convince clients of their products
• NOT cocky
• Team player
• Experience with working with clients
• The sort of guy you can have a drink with
• GlobalOrange DNA

Experience

• Be able to decide what the best course of action is –> Architect
• Independant –> Tech Lead
• Should have lead a team
• Be able to show his skill –> I’ve done …. and you can see that here and here
• WHY are they good –> HOW can we know –> projects
• Generalist –> Python must be dominant (NO MICROSOFT)

Collaboration

• GO is looking for a sustainable partner
• They have a diversity of roles
• Multiple roles
• Looking for T-shaped personalities –> someone who can do multiple things

Teams

• Most of their development power in Croatia and Ukraine
• Senior Developers in NL –> Will be leading the teams in Eastern Europe
• Seniors will be the face to the clients
• Senior Developer doesn’t necessarily have to travel

Sfeer

• Similar to Label A
• Open
• Communicative person
• Someone to have a beer with

Interview process

• 1e –> Breght Boschker (CTO) & Rianne Boom (Head of HR)
• 2e –> 1 hour panel (2x 1/2 hour with 2 engineers)

MORE CONTEXT ON THE ROLE

GlobalOrange Tech Team (GoTT)We will set a high quality standard for architecture and engineering at GlobalOrange and thus for our customers as measured by the following key results:

• A quality, multidisciplinary team hired that is capable of communicating clearly both internally and externally
• 3 blueprints available for most common SaaS architectures 
• Standards for measuring the quality of the team(s) and deliverables: job descriptions, architecture/documentation/code review standards

Purpose

The purpose of the GoTT is to support the business in winning contracts (supporting business development) and delivering high quality solutions that support continuing business by setting and continuously improving quality standards within GO and our implementation partners. This includes best practices on data protection and security.Furthermore, the team is expected to spearhead standardized solutions (blueprint) that GO can leverage for speeding up development or, where possible, license to customers for additional revenue streams.

Team composition & skill distribution

Since GO delivers products covering the full range in a stack (architecture, infra, backend, frontends, apps), the team composition needs to reflect this. The team needs to be highly skilled in all areas (incl. Multiple areas of business/products), as well as diverse to ensure various viewpoints contributing to great solutions. Following the one-is-none rule, all skills need to be vested in more than one person. Giving the purpose of the team, having people with expertise in their respective verticals is key. In addition, people need to have had experience with at least one other vertical in the stack, more is a plus. Senior Roles:

• Backend (Python, JS)
• 4+ years of experience with a demonstrated contribution to real-life projects
• Experience with ‘batteries included’ frameworks: Django, Django Rest Framework, REST/Graphene, Celery, 
• Experience with microservice oriented frameworks such as Flask, Django Channels, FastApi, and SQLAlchemy
• Experience with test automation
• Frontend (web/JS)
• Mobile (apps, web/cross-platform/native)
• Architecture / infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• DevOps incl. Monitoring
• Security and data protection
• Testing & Test automation
• (ML / AI)

The team will have to consist of senior developers with a development/architecture profile. At a later stage, mediors can be added as a development path and to speed up (internal) development.

Team building & quality

The team itself will be responsible for setting, owning and growing a set of quality strategies, approved by CTO/MT. Quality strategies include but are not limited to best practices for measuring product, code and team quality. The team is involved in hiring key contributors for projects. The team is encouraged to further develop their skills and knowledge on the job and externally. The ambition is for the team (for those members who appreciate it) to also gain external visibility through e.g. speakerships or blogging.

Work

Team members are expected to work at least 70% of their time on billable projects for customers. The remaining time will be split between internal tasks (<10%) such as hiring and the remaining time on development of blueprints and licensable solutions. It is expected that development of blueprints will have an overlap and symbiotic relationship with customer projects. The team will be responsible (in collaboration with PM/MT) for delivering the roadmap for GlobalOrange’s SaaS Blueprints and its implementations.