Backend Engineer SOES (K8S, Kotlin, Azure Cloud)

Bij Albert Heijn werken is niet zomaar een baan. Het is werk met betekenis. Je werkt in een informele cultuur samen met een bevlogen team dat graag voorop wil blijven lopen en verschil wil maken. Met jouw unieke talent maak je impact op het leven van al onze klanten. Je leert van experts in hun vakgebied en we helpen je jouw loopbaan vorm te geven. Je kunt bij ons flexibel werken, zowel vanuit huis als op ons hoofdkantoor in Zaandam. Een baan bij Albert Heijn is niet alleen een baan voor nu, maar ook voor later.

Backend Engineer SOES (K8S, Kotlin, Azure Cloud)

Help shape the technology behind one of the Netherlands’ most trusted brands. With more than 1300 stores, opening new locations, closing existing ones, and remodeling stores is a complex process. It requires strict planning, coordination, and teamwork across multiple departments. The Store Opening Execution and Support team (SOES) coordinates all IT-related tasks to ensure stores are fully operational from day one. As a member of SOES, you’ll have the chance to automate and optimize the store opening process.

How you’ll make an impact as a Backend Engineer

• Understand the complexity of the IT landscape that supports our stores and ensure everything works flawlessly from day one.
• Be ready to jump into operational mode when needed.
• Continuously improve supporting IT systems and processes.
• Build APIs and microservices.
• Design and implement integrations with existing systems.
• Work with ServiceNow components like SPM, Sandbox, and MidServer.

Your new team and office.

Together with your team and supported by experts on backend development, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common goal; to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way: partly from home and partly in our office, located right next to Zaandam train station.

What you’ll need for maximum impact

• 3+ years of experience with key technologies: Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, and Azure Cloud.
• CI/CD expertise: Confident working with continuous integration and deployment, including test automation and release engineering.
• Solid grasp of best practices: You understand clean code, security, test automation, and cloud concepts.
• Excellent fluent communication skills in English and Dutch.
• Business-to-technical translation: Able to turn business needs into technical solutions and collaborate closely with stakeholders.
• Experience with iterative development: Comfortable working in cycles and adapting as you go.
• Continuous improvement mindset: You spot opportunities for improvement and help shape the technical roadmap.

What we offer

• An annual salary of up to €75k (including holiday allowance & bonus), depending on your seniority based on a full-time workweek.
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 times more than you as an employee.
• A travel allowance or an NS business Card for commuting to Zaandam by train.
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies.
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, up to a maximum of €300 per year.
• A company laptop and phone.