Senior Product Software Engineer – Clearfacts (Accounting Team)
About the Role
Join our team as a Senior Product Software Engineer, where you'll take the lead in designing and developing the core features of Clearfacts, a pre-accounting software used by accountants and their SME clients. As part of the Accounting Team, you’ll focus on enhancing the portal used by accountants, ensuring its scalability, performance, and robustness as we process millions of documents.
You'll play a key role in new feature development, maintaining and optimizing existing functionalities, integrating AI-powered enhancements, and driving technical excellence across the team. If you're passionate about building scalable and reliable software solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
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Lead the development team in the creation of new features, ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions for accountants and their clients.
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Enhance and maintain core components of Clearfacts, focusing on performance, security, and reliability.
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Drive technical excellence by setting coding standards, improving development workflows, and mentoring the team.
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Optimize system scalability as we handle millions of documents, ensuring efficient data processing and performance.
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Collaborate closely with the product team, support team, and operations team to improve user experience and resolve complex issues.
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Implement AI integrations where applicable, enhancing automation and efficiency for accounting workflows.
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Ensure high code quality through rigorous testing, peer reviews, and best practices.
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Act as the main driver for innovation, continuously improving our technology stack and development processes.
Tech Stack & Skills
We’re looking for an experienced engineer with a strong background in:
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Backend Development: PHP (Symfony preferred)
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Frontend Development: React (is a plus)
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Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
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Database Management: Amazon Aurora (MySQL compatible)
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Agile Development: Experience working in Scrum teams and collaborating with Product Owners
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Fluent in Dutch & English
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Bonus: Interest in the financial/accounting sector is a plus but not required.
Why Join Us?
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Impactful Work: You’ll be working on the core of our application, directly influencing how accountants manage financial data.
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Technical Challenges: Build solutions that scale efficiently to handle millions of documents.
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Collaborative Team: Work closely with product, support, and operations teams to deliver the best possible solutions with excellent user experience.
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Hybrid Work Environment: Work remotely with two office days per week for in-person collaboration.
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Small but Strong Team: We value close collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
If you're ready to take ownership and drive innovation in a growing, technology-driven company, you could be the perfect fit.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
Top Skills
What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
