Senior Back End Developer ( Kotlin, Microservices, Kubernetes, Cloud )

Are you ready to be a part of something transformative? Join the AH Stores as a Senior Kotlin Developer 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 Senior Kotlin Developer, you'll play a leading role in our ongoing transformation and micro service adventure. If you have a fervor for working with leading tech stacks like Kotlin, Java, Kafka, helping make amazing applications for the Albert Heijn Stores landscape, and much more, then this is the ideal place for you!

This is how you will reinvent food retail

• Build a greenfield microservices architecture on Kotlin/Java for the Albert Heijn Stores Cluster
• Coach and guide the engineers in your team
• Develop technical solutions in line with our systems and business process architectur
• Develop proofs of concept, build code, implement and execute automated testing, ensure security and code quality, develop best practices and execute automated testing
• Further enhance our technical standards and guidelines
• Work closely within a product team, participating in agile ceremonies, story refinement, code changes, deployments, and production support activities
• Share your expertise and contribute to initiatives and your product cluster and the broader AH Technology Platform
• Develop the team’s skills and processes to deliver value as quickly as possible.

As Senior Engineer, 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. You will work closely with our Product Owner and Product Architect, to develop our technology landscape. Business technology and Solution consultants will support you and the rest of the team to identify requirements and find the best possible solutions

Your new team and office

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: both from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

We think it’s important to be part of an 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 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

The recipe for maximum impact:

• A Technology/IT Engineering Master or Bachelor degree.
• 5+ years experience working as Senior Engineer, Tech Lead or Principal Engineer working in a complex (corporate) Technology environment.
• Broad technical knowledge including Kotlin, Microservices, Cloud (preferably Azure and OCI), Github/Github Actions, Kubernetes, API and non-functional requirements such as scalability and technical security.
• Knowledge on event streaming and messaging platform (Kafka).Big plus if you have knowledge of Oracle PL SQL
• Knowledge and experience on Agile.
• An outstanding command of English.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead and motivate people
• Already located in The Nether

What we offer

At AH Technology 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 100K 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?
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 6 times more than you as an employee;
• A travel allowance for traveling to and from Zaandam or a NS-business card to travel from home to work;
• 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

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinvents

🚀 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

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. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! A technical assessment might be part of our selection process.