Make Waves | https://makewaves.fm | Lead developer & Marketing Manager | FULLTIME | ONSITE / HYBRID (>= one day in the office a week) | Amsterdam, NL
Make Waves was founded in 2021 by two brothers with a track record in the music and tech industry. We’re building a kinder, more helpful platform for independent artists to release their music and build a following. By providing artists with easy-to-understand tools and insights in a notoriously over-complicated industry, we want to empower DIY artists to control their careers without making concessions.
In the last years we’ve built the platform from the ground up and are now entering a phase where we’re focusing on growth and maturity. We’ve also secured funding for the next three to four years, so we can provide a stable job with great growth potential.
We are actively looking for a lead developer (with a hope you can transition into a CTO role in the near future) and a marketing manager. Unfortunately we can’t offer relocation or visa sponsorship and are only considering candidates that are able to join us in the office weekly.
"competitive salary" can mean very different things to different companies in the Amsterdam area.
I wonder what the situation is like here. But given that the lead dev role looks to be on a CTO path, I assume compensation might be heavier in equity?
In recent years due to the somewhat mixed economy, "competitive salary" in the Netherlands is typically in the 50-70k/year range in my experience (for mid/senior engineers). Salaries and freelance rates have been quite depressed in the last year or two.
Well it is competitive with other salaries in the Netherlands. If you don't have a family or want to buy a house then you can live reasonably well here on such a salary. If you have a family or are trying to buy a house though, it can be quite challenging. Median salary for everyone is lower still of course...
Anecdotally when I moved to the Netherlands I was making 50k and over two years later 70k at that same company with about 4 years of experience.
If you look at talent.io tech report and other resources the median tech salary seems to be closer to 60k (70k Amsterdam) for all experience levels, all categories, so with some looking around you can find much better than that.
Make Waves was founded in 2021 by two brothers with a track record in the music and tech industry. We’re building a kinder, more helpful platform for independent artists to release their music and build a following. By providing artists with easy-to-understand tools and insights in a notoriously over-complicated industry, we want to empower DIY artists to control their careers without making concessions.
In the last years we’ve built the platform from the ground up and are now entering a phase where we’re focusing on growth and maturity. We’ve also secured funding for the next three to four years, so we can provide a stable job with great growth potential.
We are actively looking for a lead developer (with a hope you can transition into a CTO role in the near future) and a marketing manager. Unfortunately we can’t offer relocation or visa sponsorship and are only considering candidates that are able to join us in the office weekly.
Check out https://kb.makewaves.fm/general/careers for more details.