Backend Developer - AH Contracts (Kotlin/Java, MongoDB, Azure)

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• Passion for your expertise
• True tech-savvy
• High focus on quality

How you can
make a difference

Are you ready to bring Albert Heijn Technology to the next level as a Backend Engineer? Within AH Tech Retail Business Platform we are looking for an enthusiastic Backend Developer (Kotlin, MongoDB, Azure) for the sourcing domain. This domain is responsible for the applications for sourcing and contract managers which give them insights into the retail market, support in negotiations with our suppliers and manage our contracts.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Help rebuild our traditional tech landscape and create new applications in a modern innovative tech foundation to scale our ever-growing core business.
• Build code, implement, and execute automated testing, ensure security, code quality, and contribute to best practices and deployment.
• Be a valued team member, that contributes and removes obstacles.
• Integrate and expand our contract management capacity.

You will be joining the Contracts DevOps team, building the services in a modern innovative technology landscape to support applications for our contract managers in business.

You are working closely together with the other DevOps-engineers/Front end developers in the team, the solution consultant and the product owner to co-create a new application that will be the future contract management of AH.

Our engineers are passionate about their craft, and they want to keep learning and improving. They are not afraid to ask for what you need to make that happen and they go the extra mile to support each other delivering results, joint brainstorming sessions and pair programming are a regular things in our team.

Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. We can usually be found at the office in Zaandam (right next to the train station) one or two days per week.

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 give our customers accessibility to healthy food more easily available 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) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? 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 as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station Zaandam.

We think it’s important to be part of an 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. So 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!

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.
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days. Enjoy! 
• 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 a 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 free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits; 
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact

• 5+ working with REST based services/microservices using Kotlin/Java + Spring boot. If you don’t have Kotlin experience but Java experience, you can learn while working
• You are a developer that takes care of code quality, own code testing, follow development principles, and help the team to not deviate from the guidelines
• Bonus if you also have worked with MongoDB
• Knowledge of REST, APIs, CI/CD and Cloud (Azure)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Grafana and Prometheus is a plus
• Familiar with Scrum/Agile methodology
• An outstanding command of the English language.
• 24/7 responsible for the application dev & ops and willing to participate on the standby schedule

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 an 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! A 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.”
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Live wholeheartedly

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

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