Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Microservices/Azure) in Zaandam

As a Backend Engineer, you will help in advancement of AH tech landscape into a modern cutting-edge technology landscape. You will be joining our Promotions area in Retail Business Platform execution cluster. Teams within Promotions area are responsible for the creation of sales Promotions and Campaigns which are attractive and beneficial to Albert Heijn consumers. All this while ensuring 24*7 uptime on 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.
• 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.
• Share technical and process improvement ideas with colleagues in your team.
• In your role, you are responsible for the applications and products developed by your product team., You will be joining the Retail Business platform cluster, Promotions area, working closely together with the other DevOps (frontend and backend) 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. You will participate in creating the technical design, developing technical solutions subsequently deploying them and maintaining them. You are expected to spend a majority of your time on hands-on delivery, pair programming 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. Please note that Dutch is not mandatory for executing the role.

• Has 8+ 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, KaaS/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 creating solution design, technical implementations, operations, business alignments, prioritization, along with the team
• Has good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in agile teams.
• Already located in The Netherlands.

We think it's important to be part of a 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. 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 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.

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.