Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin, Microservices, Kafka, DevOps)

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• True tech-savvy
• The ability to connect
• High focus on quality

How you can
make a difference

As a Backend Engineer, you will help rebuild our traditional tech into a modern cutting-edge technology landscape (Microservices, Kotlin, Kafka, MongoDB, Cloud Azure).

You will be joining our Supply Chain Execution cluster. This cluster is responsible for the order picking of goods in our distribution centers. All this while ensuring 24*7 uptime on mission critical environments. So, your work will have a great impact on the daily lives of our customers.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Build microservices in Kotlin for our Warehouse Operations team
• Develop technical solutions in line with our systems and business process architecture
• Develop proofs of concept, write code, implement and execute automated testing, ensure security and code quality, establish best practices, and conduct functional testing
• Further enhance our technical standards and guidelines
• Share your expertise and contribute to initiatives and your product cluster and the broader AH Stores and Supply Chain Technology Platform
• Develop the team’s skills and processes to deliver value as quickly as possible

As Backend Engineer, you are technically responsible for the work 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 our technology landscape. Business technology and Solution consultants will support you and the rest of the team in identifying requirements and finding the best possible solutions.

To give you an insight into some of the large scale initiatives we are currently busy with:

• Rebuilding our traditional tech landscape into a modern cutting-edge tech foundation (with Microservices & High code front-end) to scale our ever-growing core business
• Integrating and expanding our supply chain capacity and network
• Optimizing the value chain in our warehouses (or integrating towards our partners), transport and replenishment
• Cloud (Azure) transformation and migration.

Your new team and office

You will join the Warehouse Operations team that is part of our Supply Chain Execution cluster. We are currently building a new and modern solution to replace our legacy system that is built on the old tech stack (Oracle PL-SQL, Webmethods...). Our team works in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

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. For this job we are preferably looking for someone who brings diversity in our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table.

The recipe for maximum impact.

Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉. Don’t hesitate to apply if you think you are up for the challenge, we’re happy to have a look at your resume!

• A Technology/IT Engineering Master or Bachelor degree
• 3+ years of experience working as a backend Kotlin Developer working in a complex Technology environment
• Broad technical knowledge including Kotlin/Java, Microservices, Cloud (preferably Azure and OCI), DevOps, API and non-functional requirements such as scalability and technical security
• Knowledge on event streaming and messaging platform (Kafka) is a big plus
• Knowledge and experience on Agile
• An outstanding command of English
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead and motivate people
• Already located in The Netherlands

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀

Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission?

Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy!

An technical assessment will be part of our selection process.

What
matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”

Robert Němec, Solution Architecture Manager

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."

Christy Elgee, Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”

Robert Němec, Solution Architecture Manager