Senior Backend Developer

A bout us

Rentman is a B2B SaaS scaleup where we build the leading operations management platform to support event and media production teams. Think of us as the JetBrains for the event and media world.

Our product is our main and only focus . So if you want to work on, and improve, a long-term codebase, and think about the larger technical and product picture, then Rentman can be an interesting match for you.

Remember the last event you attended? Remember the lights, speakers, decorations, bars and everything there is to see there? All those resources need to be planned up front, tracked and transported. That’s where Rentman comes into place.

Our users plan everything from small shoots to massive festivals in 70+ countries, and they all rely on Rentman to keep their gear, people, and timing perfectly in sync.

We’re based in Utrecht (NL) with a second office in Toronto (CA), and our 100+ team members work in a culture that’s open, flat, and inclusive, where curiosity drives us, ownership matters, and everyone has the freedom to challenge ideas and make an impact.

Check out our public roadmap to see what’s coming next!

Our way of working

Rentman currently has 5 self-sufficient development teams, with plans to expand to 7 in the near future to realise all of our product goals.

The teams we currently have are

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Team equipment

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Team financials

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Team project management - Responsible for our soon-to-be-released Organize product

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Team crew - Responsible for all crew needs. Planning, budgets, and time tracking

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Team lifecycle - Responsible for everything related to onboarding and customer health

We strive to have all development teams self-sufficient and self-structured. A perfect development team consists of 2 frontend developers, 2 backend developers, a product owner, a QA engineer and a designer.

While every team is free to set their own structure and goals, currently all teams work in a traditional scrum way. 2 week sprints, with a retro to end the sprint.

Customer understanding is important at Rentman, so we facilitate visiting warehouses, interacting with customers at our “Rentman live” events, and joining various trade shows to hear first-hand from our customers how they experience our software.

Our tech stack in a nutshell

Our front-end is an Angular based SPA with over 3.500 components. It is based on a custom-made design system, and the main data-views are powered by AG-Grid. We strive to stay up-to-date with all latest developments, and we usually migrate to the latest Angular versions within 2 weeks of a new release.

We smartly process thousands of item records in the front-end caching layer, and actively keep client states in sync through a custom made websocket structure.

Our back-end is a custom-made PHP framework, with a queryable API interface similar to GraphQL (but we built ours before GraphQL existed 😉).

We take development-at-scale very seriously, and have fully typed our frontend, and even have a custom-made php-to-typescript system so that our frontend-to-backend communication is also properly typed.