Senior Reporter, Sustainable Views

ABOUT FAIRPHONE Fairphone is more than just a company - we are a global leader in sustainable, modular electronics, on a mission to change the electronics industry from the inside out. Built on strong social and environmental values, we are a diverse and inclusive team from all walks of life creating market consumer electronics that make a real impact. At Fairphone, you will find a supportive and safe space where everyone can be themselves, collaborate openly, and have the freedom to learn and grow - because that’s how we innovate and drive change together!  So… are you a proactive, self-motivated team player who loves taking initiative and bringing positive energy? Do you thrive in a fast-moving start-up or scale-up environment? Are you a great communicator who values collaboration and embraces different perspectives? And most importantly, do you feel a strong connection to Fairphone’s mission and values? If you're nodding along and thinking, “Yes, that’s me!”, then check out our vacancy below!  Please know that we acknowledge that we are living in a time where the use of AI can bring many efficiencies and support. However, we want to know the real YOU. Please try to limit the use of AI tools to generate answers to the application; we value authenticity and encourage you to use your creativity!  * Location: Amsterdam-based position * Hours: 32 to 40 hours per week * Start: 01.08.2026 * Contract duration: The 1st 12-month employment contract with the possibility of extension to permanent  * Deadline to apply: We review applications on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as possible ABOUT YOUR ROLE The Fairphone Software Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on AOSP and Android to redefine device longevity. In this role, you won't just maintain a device; you will architect a more sustainable future for mobile technology by extending the lifecycle of our hardware up to 8 years. You will be a technical anchor for our Android and vendor stack, working all across the different layers of the Android OS. Your mission is to master the complexities of the AOSP as well as Qualcomm open source and proprietary stack through nearly a decade of Android upgrades. We are looking for an engineer who excels at deep-dive analysis and innovative problem-solving, someone capable of maintaining security and performance long after traditional vendor support ends. Join us in building a fairer, more durable OS that proves high-performance technology can, and should, last. You will report directly to our OS Longevity team Tech Lead, under our Head of Software Engineering, who reports to our CTO. You will be working next to and senior engineers who focus on Android AOSP and Linux kernel. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & OBJECTIVES KEY OBJECTIVES * Architect a sustainable future for mobile technology by extending hardware lifecycle to 8 years. * Master the complexities of AOSP  stacks through nearly a decade of upgrades. * Maintain security and performance long after traditional vendor support ends. * Android operating system upgrades: Contribute to the software engineering activities needed for upgrading the devices to a newer Android version. * MR and SMR releases: Contribute to ongoing long-term maintenance work, including the continuous development of the Android platform across our entire device portfolio. You will ensure consistent system stability through successive Android versions, performing root-cause analysis for issues and providing proactive maintenance to uphold high quality standards between major releases. * Cross-device codebase: Contribute to consolidating the different Android codebases across our devices, streamlining development efforts and reducing operational overhead. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Integrate and maintain the Android operating system on Fairphone devices. * Provide clarity on (user-)reported software and hardware issues. This includes reproducing problems, analyzing their impact, and documenting your in-depth analysis to share your observations with your colleagues. * Provide technical guidance for other engineers working on your software stack. Implement software fixes for specific challenges. Work together with quality teams and testing partners to validate proposed fixes and to ensure integrity of the overall operating system. * Drive continuous improvement in software quality.  YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE * You have a degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a similar field, or have equivalent experience in one or more of these fields. * You have 8+ years of relevant, hands-on experience in the Android ecosystem, specializing in Android system bring-up, maintenance, and upgrades. * You are an expert developer proficient in the core Android stacks, including C/C++, Rust, Java, and Kotlin. You don't just write code; you architect, test, and implement robust functional requirements. * Specific expertise in any of the various HALs within Android is a bonus, such as camera, audio, WiFi or Bluetooth. * You are software quality-driven, used to unit and integration testing, code review tools, and continuous integration. * You are well-versed in open-source development methodologies and thrive in a collaborative environment. * You excel at triaging complex bug reports, performing root-cause analysis across hardware/software boundaries, and documenting your findings clearly. * You are familiar with basic scripting (shell), process automation (Python), and code versioning (Git). * You are proficient with GNU/Linux operating systems. * You are proficient in spoken and written English. Most of us don't have English as our first language, but it's the primary language we use internally, as well as with our teams and partners worldwide. WHAT FAIRPHONE CAN OFFER YOU? * The opportunity to create an impact on the electronics industry around the world. * A diverse work environment full of international, passionate, warm-hearted team members. * 25 paid holidays per year (based on a full-time contract) next to the other public holidays in the Netherlands. You’ll also get a day off on your birthday! Additionally, the longer you stay, the more holidays you get!  * Daily, healthy lunch, organic FairChain coffee, and many more tasty things. * You will join Fairphone’s collective pension scheme, and we will contribute to building your pension. * You will receive a laptop, Fairbuds,  and a Fairphone as working devices. * Hybrid working model: We are remote-friendly and also contribute up to €250 toward your home office set-up. * Public transport allowance – we fully cover your 2nd-class commute from your home to the office * Bike allowance – We support you with a bike purchase of up to €300, and you’ll also have a yearly repair budget of up to €100! We also cover 23 cents per km for your biking distance from home to the office (or train station) and back! * Grow with us! We encourage you to develop at Fairphone. In addition to €500 for L&D, we’ll support your career goals with coaching (Inuka), workshops, or courses that you can join with your development budget. You will get access to Udemy with unlimited courses and trainings. * Kitchen with beautiful views to the IJ waterfront. * There’s a gym in the building where you can build healthy habits, stay active and have fun with your colleagues, as well as a subscription to our mental & physical well-being services (Inuka & Urban Sports)

FIRMUS TECHNOLOGIES Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific. Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability.  At Firmus, we are unique in our approach. We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure – the AI Factory. Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction. For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.   FIRMUS AI CLOUD Our large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, is purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale to customers. It empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings. With an ever-growing suite of services and applications, we are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.   WHY FIRMUS? As an NVIDIA Cloud and Engineering partner in Asia Pacific, you will gain skills, experience, and exposure across the AI industry and be part of shaping what this industry looks like for decades to come. We are founder-led, not a big corporate. Decisions happen fast, our leaders are accessible, and there's minimum bureaucracy between you and the work. Ownership comes early. Whatever your role, you will have a direct line to outcomes, helping shape how the business grows as we scale nationally across a long-term, large-scale roadmap.  Work alongside founders and experts in AI infrastructure, energy systems and next-generation compute. What we build here has impact beyond the business. Our AI Factories are designed to operate as assets to the energy grid to actively strengthen the communities and regions they operate in rather than drawing from them. Considering applying? You don't need a perfect background to join our team. If you're driven and curious, there's a path for you. We back our people to grow into new domains and take on challenges beyond their previous experience.   ROLE SUMMARY The Senior Treasury Specialist will support Firmus’ treasury operations across debt facilities, hedging, cash management, bank guarantees, intercompany funding, reporting, controls, and treasury systems implementation. This role is responsible for helping build scalable treasury processes as Firmus grows, ensuring treasury activity is accurately captured, controlled, reported, and aligned with financing, accounting, compliance, and operational requirements. * Debt facility administration, including ongoing management of monthly compliance processes for GPU backed asset financings. * FX and interest rate hedging, including confirmation processes, FX and interest rate settlements, hedge accounting support, valuations, and effectiveness testing inputs. * Cash management and investments, including short-term liquidity planning, consolidated cash reporting, investments and counterparty exposure monitoring. * Treasury systems and automation, including implementation of a treasury management system, automated bank feeds, straight-through processing, and improved treasury controls. You will work closely with Finance, Legal, Company Secretariat, Operations, and external banking partners to ensure treasury processes are disciplined, accurate, timely, and fit for a fast-growing AI infrastructure business. The role is hands-on and operationally focused, requiring strong attention to detail, control discipline, financial systems capability, and the ability to manage multiple treasury work streams across debt, hedging, cash, reporting, and intercompany activity. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys building robust treasury operations in a high-growth environment and can combine technical treasury knowledge with practical process execution.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Debt Facilities * Maintain accurate records of debt facilities, including key terms, rate sets, interest accruals, fee amortisation, ticking fees, and related accounting inputs. * Prepare and coordinate monthly compliance processes, covenant reporting, certificates, lender reporting, and ongoing covenant model updates. * Coordinate treasury payments for based on debt waterfalls, and manage fees, interest, transfers to and from liquidity accounts, and other facility-related cash movements. Cash Management & Investments * Prepare consolidated cash balance reporting across banking partners, including minimum cash balances required in specific accounts. * Responsible for weekly cash flow funding and support medium term cash forecasting, incorporating expected payments, project-level requirements, liquidity needs, and corporate cash views. * Management of short term cash investments including term deposits and MMFs. * Support ongoing bank KYC requirements in conjunction with Company Secretariat and maintain disciplined records for bank access and authority arrangements. Hedging * Manage day-to-day FX requirements in line with weekly cash flow funding * Support the GM Treasury in developing the Group’s hedging strategy. * Coordinate FX and derivative confirmations and settlements. * Support hedge accounting documentation, valuations, CVA/DVA measurement inputs, and effectiveness testing processes. Bank Guarantees * Coordinate execution, issuance, amendment, tracking, and release of bank guarantees as required by the business. * Maintain a bank guarantee register and support accounting for guarantee fees, including upfront fees released to profit and loss over time. Reporting, Controls & Compliance * Prepare monthly treasury and facility reporting, including cash balances, controlled account reconciliations, operating reporting, covenant model updates, and project-level treasury inputs. * Support reporting required for customer contracts, lender requirements, equity investor requirements, and SPV funding arrangements. * Prepare monthly counterparty credit reporting covering investments, mark-to-market positions, exposures, and treasury counterparty risk. * Assist with audit reporting on treasury control and process compliance, including bank platform access reviews and segregation of duties. Intercompany & Treasury Systems * Support accounting and reporting for cross-entity bank transfers, cross-border balances, and ring-fenced entity balances. * Lead or support treasury management system implementation, including facility capture, hedging workflows, valuation and effectiveness testing setup, and treasury reporting. * Work with Finance Systems to implement automated bank statements into NetSuite and the treasury management system, and support straight-through processing for AP and treasury payments. * Identify opportunities to improve treasury processes, controls, documentation, automation, and reporting cadence as Firmus scales.    SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Required Skills * 5+ years experience in treasury operations, corporate treasury, project finance operations, banking, or a related finance role. * Strong understanding of debt facility administration, cash management, payments, bank accounts, covenants, interest accruals, fees, and treasury reporting. * Working knowledge of FX, derivatives, confirmations, settlements, hedge accounting support, valuations, and treasury counterparty reporting. * Strong financial systems capability, with experience using ERP, banking platforms, treasury management systems, payment automation and AI tools. * High attention to detail, strong control mindset, and ability to manage deadlines across multiple workstreams. * Clear written and verbal communication skills, with ability to coordinate effectively across Finance, Legal, CoSec, banks, advisors, and internal stakeholders. Preferred Experience * Experience in a high-growth infrastructure, technology, energy, data centre, project finance, or listed-company environment. * Familiarity with lender reporting, covenant models, controlled accounts, liquidity requirements and intercompany funding.   LOCATION & REPORTING * Location: Sydney, Australia * Reports to: General Manager, Treasure   EMPLOYMENT BASIS Permanent full-time   DIVERSITY At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions. Join us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.