Senior Backend Developer

Being a passionate backend developer for the AH eCommerce backend domain, means you are part of the most important department working on the full backend and processes for AH home delivery.

This is eCommerce Backoffice
The Albert Heijn eCommerce Backoffice cluster, led by Head of Tech Johan van Es and Stefan Tijsen, is a fast growing and hugely important part of home delivery. With nine DevOps teams we are serving business and consumers with reliable databases, services and apps for all logistics processes ranging from replenishment to order picking, forecasting, warehouse management and delivery. The team in which you will join is team Delivery. In this DevOps team you will work on the backend of the Delivery domain including route calculations, scheduling and delivery capacity. You will be responsible for multiple Kotlin microservices running in a Kubernetes cluster. You will join a talented and experienced team, consists of DevOps engineers (Outsystems, Kotlin, Tester), a Product Owner and a Scrum Master. Together with the team you will closely collaborate to deliver enormous impact every day!

This is how you will reinvent Food Retail as a Senior Backend Engineer:

• Be a valued team member and a valuable team player, celebrating successes together.
• Have an appetite to learn from the experts around you.
• Put the organization in a position to deliver value as quickly as possible.
• Join an Agile scrum team that works in increments of two weeks; participating in all ceremonies of standups, refinement, planning, retrospective…
• Work with the team on reliable solutions and also take responsibility for the teams’ code in our DevOps way of working (including availability for standby shifts).
• Analyse/design application and data architecture solutions, build code, enforce code quality, develop best practices and manage deployments.
• Develop on applications that run our business critical and strategical processes of delivery.
• You will work hard on innovative and challenging solutions with support of your team and Product Owner, while weighing the effects on our architecture and managing dependencies like a boss. You also engage intensively with colleagues in the whole AH Tech department. In short, this is a fantastic and challenging role in which you work on great projects and help us to deliver on our promise to our millions of shopping customers. As for the setting: we actively promote autonomy and experimenting. Misadventures are learnings to be shared with your colleagues! Speaking of which, at AH Technology you work with the brightest minds in the data, digital and tech domains, so inspiration is never in short supply...

The right ingredients for maximum impact

At AH Technology you'll be working for one of the biggest food retailers in the Netherlands. To become successful as our new software Engineer, you bring:

• Bachelor or University degree in Computer Science, IT or a comparable subject.
• At least 5 years work experience as a Backend Developer, Java Developer, Kotlin Developer or Backend DevOps Engineer etc. • Experience with Java 11 or higher, Kotlin, Services (APIs) and CI/CD.
• Knowledge on Containerization (Kubernetes) and Cloud (Azure).
• A getting-things-done mentality.
• An insatiable appetite for new knowledge and knowledge sharing.
• Good communication skills, fluent in English or Dutch

The recipe for maximum impact:

At AH Technology 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 of up to €90K (including holiday allowance & bonus) based on a full-time workweek.
• Minimum of 20 days of paid holidays, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, convert the additional days into discounts, or sell them for cash? You’re the end boss!
• 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, to a maximum of €300 per year;
• A company laptop and telephone.

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.

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