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title: 'Mid-level Backend Engineer, IAM at DataSnipper'
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# Mid-level Backend Engineer, IAM at DataSnipper

- **Company:** DataSnipper
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/datasnipper/432b5ea3-4f89-4f07-9134-8b69e1dd826d

## Job description

We are looking for a Mid-level Backend Engineer to join the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team at DataSnipper!

In this role, you'll work on core platform services that power authentication, authorization, and access across our product. You’ll help build reliable, secure, and scalable systems that enable all backend teams.

This is a foundational platform role where your work will directly impact every part of the product.

## ABOUT DATASNIPPER:

DataSnipper is the driving force behind an intelligent automation platform that’s transforming the world of audit and finance.

Founded in 2017, DataSnipper has grown into a $1B unicorn, with over 500,000 users across 160+ countries and offices in Amsterdam, New York, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Mexico City.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO:

- Build and maintain core IAM services (authentication, authorization, access management)
- Develop scalable and secure backend systems
- Collaborate with other backend teams to ensure seamless integrations
- Contribute to improving system reliability and performance
- Participate in an on-call rotation (second line after tech support)

## WHAT YOU BRING:

- 3–6 years of backend development experience with OOP languages (C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
- Solid understanding of API development
- Experience building scalable systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Bias to action and sense of ownership
- Ability to work independently on defined tasks and clearly communicate blockers
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
- Good amount of experience around testing and various methodologies

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Exposure to authentication / authorization systems
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
- Interest in backend security and platform systems
- Experience working in platform teams
- Experience working in startups or scaleups

## WHAT WE OFFER:

- Being part of one of the fastest-growing scale-ups in the Netherlands
- Make an impact by disrupting the audit industry with us
- 28 vacation days on a full-time basis
- Excellent salary
- Pension plan
- Stock participation plan
- Hybrid mode of work (at least 3 days onsite in Amsterdam)
- International working environment
- Daily lunch provided by our in-house chef 🍽️
- Access to OpenUp (mental health platform)
- Friday drinks and team events 🤩

## RECRUITMENT STEPS:

- Recruiter screen
- Hiring Manager interview
- Peer programming session
- System design interview
- Final interviews

## About DataSnipper

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DataSnipper provides an AI‑powered agentic platform that automates repetitive verification and testing workflows directly inside Excel for audit and finance teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, valued at $1 billion as of February 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (with offices in New York and Kuala Lumpur)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Maarten Alblas, Jonas Ruyter, Kai Bakker

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial audit & accounting technology; intelligent automation and AI for enterprise compliance
- **Target customers**: B2B – audit and finance teams at top accounting firms and Fortune 500 companies
- **Mission**: “Disrupt the audit and finance industry” by eliminating manual, repetitive tasks and empowering professionals to focus on high‑judgment work.

## Products & Services
- **DataSnipper Agentic Platform**: An AI‑driven platform that uses agents to run end‑to‑end workflows (e.g., royalty calculations, revenue testing, test of details). Agents handle the repetitive work while reviewers approve outputs.
- **AI Suite**: Analyzes and surfaces insights from unstructured documents using natural‑language queries.
- **Cloud Collaboration Suite**: Real‑time collaboration for distributed teams, integrated directly with Excel.
- **Invoice / Receipt / Contract Extraction**: Automated data extraction from invoices, receipts, and contracts using OCR and AI.
- **WebSnip**: Extracts and validates data from webpages into Excel (text snip, table snip).
- **Excel Agents**: Automates analysis and testing directly inside Excel (announced recently).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1 billion (unicorn status as of Feb 2024)
- **Total Funding**: €92 million Series B (≈$100 million) raised in Feb 2024
- **Notable Investors**: monashees, Index Ventures (and 3+ investors per Crunchbase)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Trusted by all top 100 accounting firms and Fortune 500 companies they serve.
  - 85% time saved in high‑volume testing scenarios (FGMK case study).
  - 90% faster document reviews (Kushner LaGraize case study).
  - 10 000 data points validated across source documents (Walker & Associates case study).
  - Team of 200+ professionals from 40+ nationalities, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, and Kuala Lumpur.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep integration with Excel – the tool that audit professionals already use daily.
- “Agentic” platform that closes the verification gap by automating end‑to‑end workflows while keeping humans in the loop.
- SOC 2 compliant, strict vendor management, no training on customer data, and encryption – meeting the highest security standards.
- Strong network effects: already adopted by all top accounting firms and Fortune 500 companies, creating a switching cost.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the “Agentic Platform” to handle more complex audit and finance workflows (internal audit, tax, financial control, government audit, advisory).
- Continue innovating with AI agents that “do the leg work” so teams can scale without adding headcount.
- Grow the engineering and product teams to accelerate product development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: EMPWR values – Exceed Customer Expectations, Master Ownership, Power in Partnership, Welcome the Unknown, Results at Speed. Emphasis on collaboration, ownership, and customer‑centricity.
- **Work environment**: Modern offices with waterside views (Amsterdam), healthy lunches, ping‑pong, pool table, cozy fireplace and bar. 50% of employees come by bike; 70% join Friday drinks.
- **Perks**: 28 vacation days (full‑time), competitive salaries, solid pension, stock participation plan. Regular social activities.
- **Growth**: “One of the fastest‑growing scale‑ups in the Netherlands” – opportunities for rapid career advancement and skill development.
- **Diversity**: 40+ nationalities, inclusive and international atmosphere.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to 1% for the Planet and actively works to make a positive environmental impact.
- **Work policy**: Multiple offices; hybrid likely, but not explicitly stated. Open positions span Engineering, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, etc.

## Sources
1. [careers.datasnipper.com](https://careers.datasnipper.com/)
2. [datasnipper.com](https://www.datasnipper.com/)
3. [careers.datasnipper.com/culture](https://careers.datasnipper.com/culture)
4. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/datasnipper)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/datasnipper](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/datasnipper.com?urlHash=sVU8)

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