Backend Developer (Kotlin/Java, Kafka, DevOps) - Stores

Are you ready to be a part of something transformative? Join AH Stores as a Backend Developer (Kotlin/Java, Kafka, DevOps) and help reshape a traditional tech infrastructure into a modern, cutting-edge technology landscape that touches the lives of millions of customers daily.

As a Backend Developer, you'll play a leading role in an ongoing transformation and microservice journey. If you are looking to work with leading tech stacks like Kotlin, Kafka, MongoDB, and Azure Cloud, helping make amazing applications for the Stores landscape, then this is the ideal place for you.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Build a greenfield microservices architecture in Kotlin for the Stores Cluster.
• Develop technical solutions in line with systems and business process architecture.
• Develop proofs of concept, build code, implement and execute automated testing, ensure security and code quality, and develop best practices.
• Further enhance technical standards and guidelines.
• Work closely within a product team, participating in agile ceremonies, story refinement, code changes, deployments, and production support activities.
• Share your expertise and contribute to initiatives in your product cluster and the broader AH Technology Platform.
• Develop the team’s skills and processes to deliver value as quickly as possible.

As Backend Developer, you are an essential part of your product team. Your team develops and supports multiple applications delivering one or more capabilities for our brands in the Netherlands. You will work closely with the Product Owner and Product Architect to develop the technology landscape. Business technology and solution consultants will support you and the rest of the team to identify requirements and find the best possible solutions.

Your new team and office.

Together with your team 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 make healthy food more easily accessible 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 and in-store shopping simpler and more inspiring.

We invest heavily in data, digital and tech, and that includes investing in your career. Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home and in the office.

We think it’s important to be part of a high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. So don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉.

What we offer.

• 45 days of paid leave: 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 more than you as an 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, up to a maximum of €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development within a complex corporate technology environment.
• Broad technical knowledge including Kotlin/Java, microservices, Spring, cloud platforms (preferably Azure and OCI), APIs, and non-functional requirements such as scalability and technical security.
• Knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL is a big plus.
• Knowledge of event streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka is a big plus.
• Knowledge of and experience with Agile.
• An outstanding command of English.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work within a team.
• Already located in the Netherlands.

About Albert Heijn.

For millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We continually rethink our propositions and stay plugged in to customer demands. We build, run and love a leading online food retail platform, supported by a large network of colleagues and stores.

Albert Heijn invests heavily in data, digital and tech, including career development.