Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin/Microservices/Azure)

How you can make a difference

Working as a Senior Backend developer for AH Technology means that you help build modern backend applications for the Finance department. The organization is currently in the midst of a transformation where processes and systems are moving towards newer technologies. They are looking for a developer with an entrepreneurial mindset who can help drive this change.

Your new job

As a backend developer, you become part of the DevOps Finance Order-to-cash team that is responsible for the maintenance and operations of multiple systems. The team has great ambitions to move from an older tech stack (Oracle 12c Forms 😉) to a modern software product. You can be a driving force in implementing this change. An important application you will be working on is the Payment Accounting Service, where incoming payments are reconciled with sales.

As a senior developer with lead experience, you will participate in creating technical design and provide technical leadership within the team. You will also support and mentor team members by sharing your experience.

Together with the other developers, you will also be responsible for maintaining the existing legacy systems. You are expected to spend most of your time on hands-on delivery and code reviews, while ensuring technical quality and delivery speed within an Agile Scrum way of working.

In this role, you will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Architects, and other stakeholders. Dutch is not required for this role.

Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home and in the office. The team goes to the office in Zaandam once or twice a week.

Our team

The finance tech teams work in close cooperation with both the Albert Heijn business finance department and external parties that perform administrative operations on behalf of Albert Heijn. The order-to-cash team focuses on applications around billing, sales accounting and cash accounting. The team consists of backend developers with a strong background in the legacy systems (Oracle PLSQL and Forms/Reports) and developers specialized in services, messaging and backend services (Kotlin).

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Help rebuild the traditional tech landscape and create new applications in a modern innovative tech foundation (high code front-end) to scale the ever-growing core business.
• Build code, implement, and execute automated testing, ensure security, code quality, and contribute to best practices and deployment.
• Be a valued team member that contributes and removes obstacles.
• Integrate and expand price management capacity.

The recipe for maximum impact

Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, they probably don’t either 😉.

• 8+ years of experience building and operating scalable backend systems with Kotlin or Java/Spring Boot in a microservices environment
• Experience with event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka) and designing scalable backend services
• Experience with cloud-native environments, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling and Infrastructure-as-Code (preferably Terraform)
• Solid understanding of relational databases and designing backend systems with a strong focus on scalability, performance and data integrity
• Experience taking technical ownership, driving solution design and architecture decisions within a team, while mentoring other developers
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions together with Product Owners and stakeholders
• Based in the Netherlands and able to work hybrid from Zaandam
• Willing to participate in an on-call/standby rotation as part of the team’s operational responsibilities
• GraphQL experience is considered a plus

What we offer

• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra
• Flexible working hours
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy
• An excellent pension plan where the employer contributes 4,5 more than the employee
• A travel allowance or an NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits
• A company laptop and telephone

About Albert Heijn as an employer

Albert Heijn is a leading food retailer with more than 125,000 colleagues, over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders, and a leading online food retail platform.

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