Haskell Software Engineer

Your job:

You would join Infra, in either the Red or Infra Green team. These teams work on our Infrastructure together with the other Infra team (Infra Blue).

You will be working on the backend of a complex distributed web application. Our tool provides a number of different services, written in Haskell and Python.

In this position, you will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of new and old features in our application. You will also be working on scaling our Haskell applications to the next level, where we can handle another order of magnitude increase in throughput while keeping our app fast and responsive. We value high engineering standards, take a look at our open-source work at GitHub, and you can also take a look at our tech blog.

Our Stack includes: Haskell, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, Terraform, Ember.js, Prometheus. And we run all of our infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.

Your challenges:

• Design, development, and testing of new product features

• Collaborate with and review PRs of other team members

• Improve the reliability and robustness of our application

• Work on scalability and performance improvements

• Work together with our product and DevOps teams on requirements and issues

Who are you?

• Excellent programming skills in Haskell (or similar typed functional language)

• Experience in tuning and scaling a big application

• Experience with web development, web technologies, and APIs

• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases, preferably Postgres

• Good working knowledge of Linux, git, and the command-line

• Living in The Netherlands (or willing to relocate) and in possession of a valid work permit (if you’re a non-EU citizen)

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Haskell libraries like warp, conduit, async, servant, aeson, compact

• Experience with Nix

• Familiar with Python or other dynamic languages

• Interested in automation and fast builds

Who are we?

Channable was founded 10 years ago in the heart of Utrecht. We are now a strong team of 250+ diverse individuals, and more than 40 nationalities

Joining Channable means you’re looking for a bit more than just a job. Diverse as we are, we all share our love for growth, to help, to take ownership, and create an awesome journey together. Feel free to take a further look at who we are here and on our Instagram, Facebook or Linkedin!

What do we offer?

• Gross salary of 3.465 - 7.198 euros based on your experience (based on 40 h/w)

• A €1.000 annual Individual Learning & Development budget

• Stock Appreciation Rights: eligible employees can financially profit from Channable’s success

• Saving for old age - yes, we provide an extra 5% of your monthly base salary

• Company-wide bonus

• Once every 10 weeks, you can use your creativity during our internal Hackathon day

• We like to contribute to the Haskell community. We reguralry host Haskell meet-ups at our Utrecht office. Take a look!

• 26 vacation days + 2 reload days based on 40 hours, and on top of this; you are allowed to go for a 3-week-long workcation and an extra 3 weeks if you're an expat living in the Netherlands!

• Are you going to become a parent? We think it is important that you spend time with your newborn. Enjoy 5 weeks of 100% paid partner leave.

• To work in a beautiful historic and fully renovated office in the heart of Utrecht & with a flexible hybrid working policy of (minimum 2 days in the office).

• Since you can work from home for 3 days a week, we will provide home office supplies.

• Having flexible working hours means starting your day between 8.00 - 10.00 am.

• We want you to feel good - please feel free to use our discounted Urban Sports Club subscription. We also have Kwadwoo, a certified personal trainer, available for 30-minute sessions to improve your training strategy, create a workout plan, or train with you on select business days between 8:00–9:00 am or 17:00–18:00.

• At Channable, our Chef and Commis Chef prepare fresh meals Monday to Thursday, catering to all dietary needs—including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free—to keep our team fueled and inspired!

• You also have free & anonymous access to the OpenUp platform and psychologists. This free service is also available to your family members.

• Traveling to our office? No problem, we got you covered.

• Channaweekend (we go abroad every year for a long weekend with all the colleagues from all over the world).

• Additional working conditions like great lunch, massages, in-office bar (Channabar), parties, sports teams, video games, and many more!