Backend Developer (Kotlin/Java, Kafka, DevOps) - Transport Delivery

Help shape the technology driving one of the Netherlands’ most trusted brands. As our new Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java, Kafka, DevOps), you’ll build and run applications that keep our supply chain transport efficient, compliant, and future-ready. Working at the intersection of engineering, sustainability, and business, you’ll have the chance to influence the daily transport of millions of products while ensuring innovation, reliability, and impact at scale.

How You’ll Shape the Future of Food Retail as a Backend Engineer

• Engineer at Scale: Design and build robust microservices in Kotlin that drive smarter, more efficient supply chain operations for our Transport Team—impacting the daily logistics of millions of products.
• Solve Real-World Challenges: Design and deliver innovative backend solutions that align with our modern architecture and business goals, ensuring your code makes a tangible difference.
• Hands-On Innovation: Dive into hands-on development—prototype new ideas, write clean and maintainable Kotlin code, automate testing, champion security, and set the bar for code quality and best practices.
• Influence Engineering Standards: Play a key role in shaping and evolving our technical guidelines, ensuring our platform is scalable and future-proof.
• Leverage GenAI Tooling: Supercharge your development workflow with GenAI-powered tools, giving you more time to focus on creative problem-solving.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Share your Kotlin expertise and collaborate on cross-team initiatives within the AH Stores and Supply Chain Technology Platform, amplifying your impact.
• Drive Team Growth: Help elevate team skills and processes, enabling us to deliver business value faster and more effectively—your ideas and mentorship will help shape our engineering culture.

You work at the heart of the Albert Heijn supply chain, responsible for the on-time delivery of our products at 1200+ Albert Heijn stores every day across the Netherlands and Belgium. Our mission is to provide the best shopping experience to our customers, offering high service levels and fresh products at an affordable price. You won't take on this task solo but as a full-fledged member of the Supply Chain Transport engineering team.

Your new team and office.
Together with your full stack 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 make healthy food more easily accessible 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 and in the office, located right next to the train station Zaandam.

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 traveling 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.

What You’ll Need for Maximum Impact:

• 5+ years of experience with key technologies: Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, and Azure Cloud.
• CI/CD expertise: Confident working with continuous integration and deployment, including test automation and release engineering.
• Solid grasp of best practices: You understand clean code, security, test automation, and cloud concepts.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Experience with iterative development: Comfortable working in cycles and adapting as you go.
• Business-technical translation: Able to turn business needs into technical solutions and work closely with stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement: You spot opportunities for improvement and help shape the technical roadmap.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.
The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes impact 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.

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