Engineering Manager Digital Shop (Kotlin/Java, Microservices)
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Job description
As a Engineering Manager, you will be part of the Digital Shop department, which is responsible for everything related to customer Shopping-whether it's managing orders, products, or enhancing our in-store handscanner experience. We're bringing all processes and systems towards cutting-edge technologies.
In this role, you will:
- Hands-on Value Delivery
- Drive your teams to adhere to high quality standards in both development and operation of mission critical AH applications.
- Be accountable as code owner together with your teams and be responsible for the team's technical performance.
- Enable team members to build and run their applications autonomously and spend part of your time on coding.
- Work closely with our Architects and help Drive our Tech Roadmap.
- Build an engineering team that welcomes technical discussions and challenges, while ensuring the application is fit for purpose.
- Leadership and People Management
- Organizing, decision-making, and mentoring.
- Instill an engineering culture in your teams and the broader platform.
- Ensure there is a healthy culture in the team and that team members can bring their whole selves to work.
- Play an active role in facilitating the growth, mentorship, and learning of DevOps engineers.
- Vision, Strategy and Alignment
- Align the team to the mission and vision of the AH Tech department and understand their part in the delivery-chain.
- Support in seeking balance between technical and product roadmap goals and priorities for the applications you are responsible for.
- Work together with different departments and stakeholders.
Your new team and office.
You will join the Assortment and Search squad, (consisting of multiple development teams) who build data pipelines to aggregate, transform, and filter information from a variety of sources. We build the core search engine, backend services, and frontend interfaces to present product information essential to the customer. The domain also includes a data science component to improve product ranking, recommendations, and overall customer experience.
At Albert Heijn, you will collaborate with talented peers across data, digital, and tech domains, all working toward a shared goal: to build digital solutions that make shopping simpler and more inspiring.
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 the 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: from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam., * As an Engineering Manager, you will be accountable for the products and applications your teams builds and maintains, as well as mentorship and well-being of team members.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in Java/Kotlin, excellent leadership skills, and experience in designing, developing, and optimizing complex systems., * 8+ years of software engineering experience, familiar with the DevOps methodology, cloud engineering, observability and security. You should be well versed in programming high quality Kotlin/Java.
- Be familiar with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, Springboot, Postgres/Oracle, Redis. Cloud service: Azure.
- Good understanding of Microservices Architecture.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience leading multiple teams (10+ persons), with excellent communication skills in English. Speaking Dutch is a plus.
- Experience working on large scale complex projects, preferably in a large enterprise environment
- Experience mentoring tech talent and developing learning and growth pathways for engineers.
- A learning mindset and eager to keep up to date with IT trends, new technologies and other relevant focus area's.
- Comfortable presenting and public speaking and able to clearly articulate a vision and strategy for the team to execute. You manage expectations both up and down the organization and control conflict.
- You are strong in the negotiation of products and services needed for the team and will create a network with vendors.
- You have an Agile mentality and focus on delivering value at every iteration. You can think strategically and inspire and encourage teams to design for the long term.
- You live in the Netherlands (mandatory)
Benefits & conditions
- An annual salary up to 125K 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.
