Full Stack DevOps

About the Position

We’re looking for a Scale-up Full-Stack DevOps who loves clean Python code, scalable cloud setups, and thrives on the freedom to actually build things right. At AREA42, you’ll help to shape our core architecture, implement practical AI automation, and work in a team that prioritises real trust over micromanagement.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the lead in the tech build, including APIs / user experience, front and backend systems, data platforms, and overall architecture in close collaboration with the IT Lead.
• Acting as senior advisor to the AREA42 teams to define the best technologies, tools and architectures for each project and venture.
• Support business analysis with technical input.
• Identifying and systematically deploying best practices to ensure sustainable scalability of the applications, in particular making each module an asset for the following ones, ensuring our developers work like craftsmen and documenting the code produced.
• AI based regression testing.

Requirements

Core Skills

• Google cloud platform Expert
• Fastapi Expert
• ArgoCD Expert
• Python Expert
• Kubernetes Expert
• PostgreSQL Expert

Secondary Skills

• Dutch Nice to have
• French Nice to have

Desired Hard Skills

Backend

• Python ^3.10
• FastAPI
• Celery
• SQLModel and Pydantic
• Pydantic AI
• sqlalchemy
• black
• flake8
• Git
• Alembic
• Postgresql
• JWT
• RestAPI
• Programmatical usage of AI models
• WordPress administration, plugin/theme development

DevOps

• Gitlab CI/CD
• ArgoCD
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Docker

Cloud Architect / Sysadmin

• Google cloud platform
• GKE
• Compute engine
• IAM
• Secret Manager
• Monitoring
• Bigquery
• Storage
• Cloud SQL
• Error reporting / Logging
• VPC network
• Vertex AI
• Linux
• Nginx
• Wireguard
• ufw / iptables

FrontEnd (nice to have)

• Typescript
• Nextjs
• NPM
• ESLint
• Prettier
• Husky
• Git

Desired Experience

• Successful experience as full-stack developer in a startup environment. Very good Python, cloud architecture and deployment skills.
• Team player.
• Outstanding execution across frontend & backend environments. Experience with data architecture is a plus.
• Highest level of professional and intellectual integrity. Trust matters.
• Can handle success and failure, positive feedback as well as critique.
• 80/20, structured self-starter with strong drive.
• Can perform independently (we do not micromanage our developers) and deliver consistent quality work according to established best practices.
• Understanding of B2B trade is a plus, of trade credit insurance is a nice-to-have.

We Offer

• Salary range: 250-900€/day
• Job subject to contract via proUnity (AREA42 procurement platform), with monthly timesheets and invoicing
• Invoices should be CC to [email protected]
• Work up to 90 days for this SoW in 2026. As a freelancer, you are free to choose when you wish to work with AREA42 or to take holidays.
• Travels to support the development of the SoW (up to 5% of the time) (travel to be arranged and cost carried by AREA42)
• All travel assignments are arranged by the Freelancer and costs carried are fully expensed by AREA42 through the timesheet.

About the Company

AREA42 vision:

We work in a smooth B2B trade environment empowered by new technologies

At AREA42, we create, innovate, and manage solutions for a fluid, risk-savvy trade environment. We support companies who want to recode trade for the digital era.

Together with disruptors, technologists and visionaries, we build a more fertile trade environment. We co-design ambitious visions. We experiment and launch new solutions. We turn innovations into new growth engines.

We are backed by Credendo, the Export Credit Agency from Belgium and the most trusted leader in trade credit insurance and surety bonds.

AREA42 Focus:

Our current investment thesis revolves around big untapped opportunities related to:

· Platforms and marketplaces,

· SMEs,

· Innovative credit data and machine learning,

· Blockchain and other new trade paradigms.

For us, success can be measured in the upgrades we offer to trade ecosystems. We do not see technology as an objective in itself, but we believe it is key to unlock radical improvements for trade and accompanying risk. We take inspiration from diverse universes. We try to hack things, fail sometimes, always learn, and thrive when we co-innovate with partners who share our passion.

AREA42 Structure:

AREA42 is an ecosystem with 2 highly complementary zones: AREA42 innovation lab and AREA42 accelerator. Each zone contributes to a successful AREA42 innovation ecosystem.

· Our innovation lab aims at growing a high-quality network of trusted partners, open to co-innovation and passionate about upgrading trade; it takes a lean start-up approach to experiment with new ideas and incubate them to become validated product concepts with a market fit. The learnings, successes and failures contribute to the feedback-loop and are shared with our innovation community.

· Our accelerator works like a growth factory. We take validated product concepts and turn them into new lines of business. Our accelerator team works with the same powerful means as the best high-growth start-ups in order to scale the most ambitious ventures in trade.

Our first basecamp is Brussels, but our playground is Europe and the world.

AREA42 Culture:

We are a diverse team based on 3 important values: respect, curiosity, and boldness. We believe in mutual trust, entrepreneurship, collective creativity, technological excellence and solid execution. For us, these values are essential to creating high-impact innovations, which we need to deliver successful long-term growth, which will help spread an innovation culture in trade.

Often, we do not know exactly what we are building. However, we always start with an exciting vision and we iterate as fast as possible to confront it with reality. We have faith in the science of experimentation and in the lean start-up approach. We invite and welcome innovators of all kinds to contribute and to have an impact. We share together the benefits of our successes.