Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java, Microservices)

Join Albert Heijn as a Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java, Microservices)

How you can make a difference

As a Backend Engineer, you will help in advancement of AH tech landscape into a modern cutting-edge technology landscape. You will be joining our Promotions area in the Retail Business Platform execution cluster. Teams within the Promotions area are responsible for the creation of sales Promotions and Campaigns which are attractive and beneficial to Albert Heijn consumers, all while ensuring 24/7 uptime on mission-critical environments. Your work will have a great impact on the daily lives of our customers.

This is how you will reinvent food retail:

• Help advance our current tech landscape by contributing to technical architecture, standards, and guidelines.
• Develop technical solutions in a modern, innovative tech foundation to scale our ever-growing core business.
• Develop proofs of concept, build code, implement and execute automated testing, ensure security and code quality, develop best practices, and execute automated testing.
• Share your expertise and contribute to initiatives within your product cluster and the broader AH Retail Technology Platform.
• Be a valued team member who contributes and removes obstacles.
• Share technical and process improvement ideas with colleagues in your team.

In your role, you are responsible for the applications and products developed by your product team.

Your team and office:

You will be joining the Retail Business Platform cluster, Promotions area, working closely with other DevOps (frontend and backend) engineers, solution consultants, and the product owner. Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home and in the office, which is conveniently located next to the train station in Zaandam.

You will participate in creating the technical design, developing technical solutions, deploying, and maintaining them. You are expected to spend a majority of your time on hands-on delivery, pair programming, and code reviews. You are expected to ensure technical quality as well as speed of delivery of the team in our Agile Scrum cadence. Please note that Dutch is not mandatory for executing the role.

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 to our team in the widest possible sense—someone who is a great addition by bringing new ideas to the table. Don’t hesitate to apply if you think you are up for the challenge; we’re happy to have a look at your resume!

What we offer

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):

• An annual salary up to 80K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your experience
• 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 times more than you as an employee
• A travel allowance or an NS-business card for commuting to and from Zaandam by train
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, up to €300 per year
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits
• A company laptop and telephone

The recipe for maximum impact:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in the full software lifecycle development in Java/Kotlin
• Broad technical knowledge of: Spring Boot, Github Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins, KaaS/Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), MongoDB (or any NoSQL DB), event streaming and messaging platforms (Kafka), Cloud (Azure)
• Critical eye on non-functional requirements such as scalability, maintainability, and security
• Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus
• Experience creating solution design, technical implementations, operations, business alignments, and prioritization, along with the team
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to work in agile teams
• Already located in The Netherlands

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀

The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes impact the lives of our customers, colleagues, and partners—and therefore, also 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.

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!

A technical assessment will be part of our selection process.

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• Excellent analytical skills
• True tech-savvy
• A solution-oriented attitude

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.”