Backend developer (Kotlin)

Op het hoofdkantoor

Bij Albert Heijn werken is niet zomaar een baan. Het is werk met betekenis. Je werkt in een informele cultuur samen met een bevlogen team dat graag voorop wil blijven lopen en verschil wil maken. Met jouw unieke talent maak je impact op het leven van al onze klanten. Je leert van experts in hun vakgebied en we helpen je jouw loopbaan vorm te geven. Je kunt bij ons flexibel werken, zowel vanuit huis als op ons hoofdkantoor in Zaandam. Een baan bij Albert Heijn is niet alleen een baan voor nu, maar ook voor later

Wat betekent dit voor jou?

Join our Marketing & Customer Cluster as a Backend Engineer! In this role, you are responsible for building new features and maintaining microservices for our Content Hub team. This Albert Heijn team plays a vital role in enhancing and expanding the Sitecore Content Hub Digital Asset Management solution, which enables the storage and management of content assets and all internal processes around content generation.

This Is How You Will Reinvent Food Retail.

• You’ll work with technologies like Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, ArgoCD and Grafana observability stack (LGTM) 
• Deploying and managing services on our KaaS (Kubernetes as a Service) environment
• You’ll collaborate on combining vendor tools with custom-built solutions
  
  
  

Your new team and office.

Together with your distributed team, consisting of DevOps Engineers, QA's, Solution Architect, Scrum Master, and Product Owner (PO), you will work on inspiring initiatives 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 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.  

 

The recipe for maximum impact.

We think it is 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 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! 

• 3 years of work experience as a DevOps engineer focused on backend development in Kotlin or Java;
• Experience with integrating with 3rd parties;
• Experience with working in a scrum team;
• Big bonus if you have experience with building software for marketing campaigns;
• You enjoy teamwork and making things happen together and improve existing tech;
• You’re tech savvy, pro-active and have a big passion for tech;
• Have good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders in a complex environment.
• Strong communication skills in English.
  
  
  

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Sitecore Content Hub
• Experience with managing business stakeholders
  
  
  

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 78k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your experience;  
• 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 – 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.
• 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 reinventors. 🚀

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.

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.

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! An assessment might be part of our selection process.