About the role
You join the development & engineering team: Colin, our CTO, Maarten and Frido. There is no separate product department. The people who build a feature also talk to the editors who use it, decide what to change and ship it. That's what we mean by product engineer.
Most of our newsrooms work in Dutch: national and regional news sites, broadcasters and magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium. You'll be on calls with their editors, read their feedback and write the Dutch that appears in the editor and in what readers see. That's why Dutch at native level is a requirement for this role.
What you'll work on
- The editor. New features in the editor where journalists build timelines, liveblogs, quizzes, polls and six more formats. Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS and Firebase.
- The readers. What a story turns into on the newsroom's own site, embedded by iframe or script. It has to load fast, speak the newsroom's language, work in dark mode and never break an article.
- Live coverage. Liveblogs that newsrooms run while news breaks, and the football liveblog that is in early access now.
- AI Modules. The AI inside every editor, where journalists choose the model and the prompt. Built on the Anthropic API.
- The newsroom side. Onboarding calls, feedback sessions, and the fixes that come out of them.
Who you'll work with
Colin Lansbergen · Co-founder & CTO
Leads engineering and reviews pull requests before they go live. Has a knack for turning complex problems into simple solutions.
Maarten Slebos · Developer & Prompt Engineer
Studied Information Science and Digital Business & Innovation. Builds and tests our products with AI-powered workflows, from the editor to what readers see.
Frido van Driem · Founder & CEO
Had the idea for Timepath in Palo Alto in 2015 and built its first version. More than 15 years in tech, and still writes code and talks with the newsrooms.
What we're looking for
You have
- Dutch at native level, spoken and written.
- A recent degree in computer science, information science, software engineering or something close. Or you're a junior developer at the start of your career.
- Something real you built in JavaScript or TypeScript, ideally React, that you can show us: a project, an internship, a repository.
- An interest in the people who use what you build, and the patience to explain a technical choice to an editor.
- Good English for code, documentation and our newsrooms outside the Netherlands.
Nice to have
- Experience with Next.js, Tailwind CSS or Firebase.
- You use AI coding tools and know where they go wrong.
- Time at a student paper, a newsroom or a media company.
- German or French. We also work with newsrooms in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.
What we offer
- Salary
- €3,000 gross per month, rising to €3,500 after six months with a positive evaluation
- Hours
- 40 hours a week, full-time
- Location
- Our office at Kabelweg 22, Amsterdam
- Contract
- One year
- Holidays
- 25 days
- Start
- As soon as possible
And work that readers of national and regional news sites see.
How to apply
Send us your Timepath: your CV as a timeline, made in Timepath. A free account is enough. Email the link to info@timepath.co, with a link to something you built and a few sentences on why this role. Schrijf gerust in het Nederlands.
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