Vacature Back-End Engineer Kotlin Stores

Are you ready to be a part of something transformative? Join the AH Stores as a Kotlin Engineer and embark on a journey to reshape our traditional tech infrastructure into a modern, cutting-edge technology landscape that touches the lives of millions of customers daily!

As a Kotlin Engineer, you’ll play a leading role in our ongoing transformation and microservice adventure. If you have a fervor for working with leading tech stacks and you enjoy making amazing, then this is the ideal place for you!

This is how you will reinvent food retail

• Design, build, and operate scalable microservices in Kotlin/Java for the Stores Cluster
• Translate business needs and architectural direction into robust technical solutions
• Experiment with new ideas through proofs of concept and turn them into secure, high-quality, production-ready software
• Apply and promote engineering best practices, including automated testing, code quality, security, and maintainability
• Contribute to the evolution of technical standards, frameworks, and development guidelines
• Collaborate closely with your product team in agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, deployments, and production support
• Share knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to engineering initiatives across your product cluster and the wider AH Technology Platform
• Continuously improve team effectiveness, engineering practices, and delivery processes to help the team deliver value faster

Your work will have a direct impact on thousands of Albert Heijn employees, giving you the opportunity to play a key role within the Stores Cluster. As part of a product team, you will develop and support multiple applications and services used by Albert Heijn store employees and business stakeholders. You will work closely with the Product Owner and Product Architect to further evolve our technology landscape. Together with Business and Solution Consultants, you and your team will translate requirements into effective, future-ready solutions.

Your new team and office

Together with your team, you will work on inspiring projects that help accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. By leveraging data and technology, we aim to future-proof food shopping and make healthy food more accessible for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you will collaborate with fantastic colleagues across the data, digital, and tech domains, all sharing a common goal: to create digital solutions that make shopping, both online and in-store, simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to help reinvent the way people buy and enjoy 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 and our office is located right next to Zaandam train station., Samen bekijken we de mogelijkheden voor jou in de winkel zoals de verschillende werktijden en welke plek het beste bij je past.

• Welkom! Zijn we allebei enthousiast? Dan kun je snel beginnen! Welkom.

Wat we vragen?

• Humor en enthousiasme
• Een positieve houding
• Een leergierige houding
• Passie voor je vakgebied
• Focus op kwaliteit
• Sterke tech skills
• Een klantvriendelijke instelling

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. Don’t you 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!, * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related technical field

• 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with strong expertise in Kotlin and/or Java
• Proven experience designing and building scalable cloud-native microservices, ideally on Azure
• Solid experience with event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka
• Strong software craftsmanship mindset, with a passion for clean code, maintainability, automated testing, and continuous improvement
• Practical experience using GenAI development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot as part of daily engineering work. You embrace an AI-first way of working, while understanding when to rely on these tools and when not to
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, reliability, and performance
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Collaborative team player with strong stakeholder communication skills
• Based in the Netherlands

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 (holiday allowance and profit share included)
• 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
• 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 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.