Junior Full Stack Engineer

At HEMA, we are building an efficient and future-proof retail technology landscape by establishing a new Engineering Organization. This is your chance to help lay the technological foundation for one of the most iconic department stores in the Netherlands and make a direct impact on HEMA’s digital progress.

The challenge

As a junior full stack/frontend engineer in our frontend chapter, you'll work in multidisciplinary product teams alongside frontend specialists, designers, product owners, and business stakeholders across different domains. You'll contribute to our scalable commerce frontend infrastructure, with a significant focus on frontend development as we build our future-proof platform.

As we build our internal engineering organization, you'll play a key role in both shaping our technical direction and helping establish our engineering culture and practices. You'll contribute to challenging projects spanning the full stack/frontend - from architecting user-facing features to designing event-based MACH architecture, implementing Made-2-Order services, and building scalable frontend APIs.

As a junior full stack/frontend engineer, you'll develop frontend services and frontend components by writing clean, testable and maintainable code. Our tech stack centers on full stack TypeScript development in our AWS-native architecture - you'll build customer facing applications using React and serverless technologies, while architecting scalable frontend services with Lambda, API Gateway, and event-driven systems. We use Apache Kafka for event-driven architecture and KONG for API management.

We provide AI development tools like Kiro to all our developers and actively support teams in using AI effectively. We're building AI-powered features including documentation assistants, and we encourage developers to leverage AI throughout the development lifecycle. Experience with service-oriented, API-first, and headless systems is a nice to have. Innovation is our lifeblood; we are always searching for the most efficient solution to support our business teams in serving our customers.

What we offer

At HEMA, you’ll experience an environment where people truly work together. You’ll receive proper guidance, useful feedback, and gain valuable experience. Whether you are looking for extending your knowledge and skills or for helping others to grow, you are welcome here.

• 💸 A competitive salary based on your knowledge and experience.
• 🌴 30 vacation days (based on a 40-hour week) and 8% holiday allowance, so you can recharge in time.
• 🎯 A variable bonus of up to 14% of your annual salary, depending on our collective results.
• 💸 A monthly net expense allowance.
• 🎄 A fixed year-end bonus of 4% of your annual salary.
• 🛍️ 15% staff discount on all your HEMA favorites, from tompouce pastries to towels and notebooks.
• 🧓 A solid pension plan, so you're well taken care of later too.
• 🚗 Travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometer (starting from 10 km one-way, up to a maximum of 30 km).
• 🎡 Access to the ‘benefits at work’ platform, with discounts on top brands, day trips, and other extras that make life more fun.

You'll bring

• Some experience with frontend systems in AWS serverless architectures or comparable cloud platforms and frontend development (React or comparable frameworks).
• Ideally, some experience in building and developing software in multidisciplinary teams, with the view that software development is a collaborative endeavor.
• Examples of how you apply pro-activity, collaborative decision-making, and accountability, which are important team values.
• The ability to speak up, ask for and give feedback, not only on code but also on behavior.
• Fluency in TypeScript, our primary programming language. Experience in a second language like Python or Java is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Ideally, AWS knowledge and enthusiasm for learning new technologies.
• A result- and quality-oriented mindset, always with the customer at the center.
• Innovation in your field of work and curiosity toward new solutions.
• A good understanding of security threats such as the OWASP Top 10 and secure coding practices.

HEMA

At HEMA, over 17,000 colleagues work together to create a better everyday life in a more beautiful world, with products that are more practical, more beautiful, better—and that last longer too.

We’re proud of how far we’ve come, and our ambition is to become a frontrunner in a challenging market. We do this together, as one team, with proud colleagues, entrepreneurs, and partners.

By playing to win, we mean being curious, seizing opportunities, working together with joy, and always aiming for the best result. You speak up, challenge others, and help each other grow. With your unique contribution, you can help build the HEMA of tomorrow.