Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Microservices/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

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help in advancement of AH tech landscape into a modern cutting-edge technology landscape.

You will be joining our Assortment and Space area in Retail Business Platform execution cluster. Teams within assortment areas are responsible for the placement of the items in the store, both on the shelf and on the store. RBP Assortment and Space team build core applications and services which create and expose this information to online and store platforms within Albert Heijn. All this while ensuring 24*7 uptime in 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.

• Help in advancement of our current tech landscape by contributing to technical architecture, technical standards and guidelines.
• Move initiatives forward and be involved on critical projects
• 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 and your product cluster and the broader AH Retail Technology Platform.
• Be a valued team member, that contributes and removes obstacles.

• Coach and guide the engineers in your team technically and process wise.

As senior Engineer with lead experience, 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.

Your team and office:

You will be joining the Retail Business platform cluster, Assortment area, working closely together with other DevSecOps engineers in the team, solution consultant, and the product owner. Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. We are next to the train station in Zaandam.

As a senior with lead experience, you will participate in creating the technical design, provide technical leadership, mentoring the team along with sharing your experience. You are expected to spend a majority of your time on hands-on delivery as well as code reviews. You are expected to ensure technical quality as well as speed of delivery of the team in our Agile Scrum cadence. In this role, you are also expected to work closely with Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Architects, and other stakeholders. Please note that Dutch is not mandatory for executing the role.

We think it’s important to be part of a highly 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 is a great addition to our team by bringing other perspectives and ideas to the table.

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 of 95k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience;
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra 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 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:

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!

• Has 12+ years of hands-on experience in the full software lifecycle development.
• 6+ years of experience on relevant technology stack - Springboot, Java/Kotlin, Github Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins, Kubernetes/Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Mongo DB/Postgress DB (or any noSQL DB), event streaming and messaging platform (Kafka), Azure/AWS/GCP PaaS with critical eye on non-functional requirements such as scalability, maintainability and security
• Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus
• Has experience driving the technical landscape, solution design, implementation, operations, business alignments, prioritization, along with the team
• Has experience working as a lead developer
• Has good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• 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.

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