SkillLab

Leadership:

• Felix – CEO
• Ragnar – Hiring Manager

Rest of the team:

• Ragnar leads the Product Team and manages our product workflow.
• Gaspar, Jesus, Victor and Aaron are SkillLab’s software engineers. 
• Aaron is our Lead Data Scientist. 
• Giulia is our Senior Product Designer
• Giulia is our UX Designer
• Azza supports the user research in her role as Customer Success and Reporting Specialist.

Process:

• 1st – Intro call (Ragnar)
• 2nd – Coding test (Aaron)
• 3rd – Culture fit (Different people)
• 4th – Leadership (Ragnar + another co-founder)

Opportunity:

• You will be working on developing the server-side infrastructure that allows our innovative and AI-driven web application to be used by millions of (marginalized) job seekers across the globe.
• You will experience the culture of a technology start-up with a social mission. 
• You will be able to leverage the power of innovative technology to solve a major social problem (helping people navigate the labour market)
• You will work with a team of highly skilled and motivated software engineers, designers, data scientists.

Ideal Candidate:

• Has helped a start-up or small-medium-sized enterprise before to scale their back-end infrastructure to serve millions of end-users
• Demonstrated abilities leading an engineering team of XX people
• Excited about our social mission to empower everyone to have a pathway to employment
• 8+ years of experience
• Ruby on Rails (preferred), Python or C#
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with SQL databases

Extra:

• Speaks Arabic
• Woman/diverse hire from non-European background
• Experience with microservice architecture like Kafka

On-site/Remote:

• On-site in Amsterdam: Their engineering team are located in Amsterdam. 
• SkillLab is okay if the candidate lives in another city in NL that he / she can easily commute from 2-3 times per week to Amsterdam. 
• SkillLab offer quite flexible work arrangements, with people working some days per week from home and others from the office. 
• For international hires, SkillLab also offer flexibility to work remotely for periods of time, e.g. when they are visiting their families back home.

Compensation:

• ± 85K
• 0.25% Stock Appreciation Rights vesting over 4 years

Relocation:

• ± €1,000 visa application fees
• €290 IND, €600 migration lawyer, €200 IN Amsterdam)
• For spouse & children: €290 IND, €400 migration lawyer, €98 IN Amsterdam + any costs for visa extension
• €650 30% ruling application for employee
• €750 relocation allowance within EU
• €1,500 relocation allowance outside of EU
• €500 relocation allowance extra family member

Benefits

• Join our bi-annual offsite events for the whole company.
• Easily access your learning budget (€750 per year) to invest in your personal development.
• Access to mentors & coaches
• (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
• Learn from your colleagues during company-wide lunch learning exchanges.
• Receive feedback from your peers and team lead at least twice per year.
• Contribute to various digital or physical company-wide events through the year.
• Work flexibly from our office in Amsterdam, or remotely with intermittent trips to Amsterdam.
• Get work equipment and commuting support if you don’t live in Amsterdam.
• Work in a team with people from 12 countries, using English as their shared language.
• Enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year, and additional leave (e.g. parental leave).
• Regularly interact with our users and see our impact on their lives.

Candidates to be Excluded:

• ‘Someone just looking for a job’. We are looking for a candidate who really cares about our social mission, the communities we are serving and the product we are building
• Frequent switching of jobs (e.g. various jobs for less than <18 months)
• Someone with only work experience within bigger corporations. Someone from a start-up, scale-up or SME background will be able to adapt easier to our organisational culture

Growth Plan:

• 5 –> 12
• Senior Full-Stack Mostly
• Needs to be Tech Lead potential –> experience building & scaling

Extra Notes:

• Front end is not problematic (bigger pool)
• React & TypeScript
• Other recruiters were UK Based
• Honeypot
• Job seekers reorientation – with AI
• Back end is: likely to switch over multiple languages – 
• Likely Python on back end as well – C#
• Long term commitment and mission focussed
• Funding 1.5M – what is the MRR? 25 FTE
• Workable ATS? Yes

About:

Skilllab is a social venture developing technology-based solutions to facilitate the integration of excluded individuals into local labour markets. We believe that the dignity of independence through work is a fundamental right that functioning labour markets should provide. By taking a new, technology-driven approach toward assessing and matching an individual’s relevant skills to local occupation, Skilllab’s solution, facilitates linkages within labour markets, making them more dynamic and inclusive.

Their Solution:

Technology for Improved Skill Assessment

SkillLab’s service uses an intuitive and engaging smartphone application that allows individuals to capture the range of past experiences and skills acquired in their native language without the need to type. Intelligent algorithms based on a comprehensive data model automatically produce and translate the resulting outputs:

• A vivid and comprehensive profile of an individual’s skillset
• A clear report of where an individual’s skillset fits within the labour market
• A delineation of the skill gap between an individual’s skillset and the skillsets required for specific occupations
• Automated job applications for any occupation in the SkillLab data model

These outputs can then be used by public employment services, civil society organisations, employers, and the individuals themselves to support their career and education planning.

Employee Count: 8

Year Founded: 2017

Type: Privately Held