Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin, Kafka, Spring Boot)

Help shape the future of messaging as a Senior Backend Developer at AH! Youyou’re your team are dedicated to enhancing and expanding our messaging capabilities. This is your chance to make an impact on a critical part of our business while working in an environment that values innovation, collaboration, and quality.

This is how you will reinvent food retail:

• You’ll have big responsibility as you work on innovative solutions for four of our key messaging channels for customers: in-app, push, email, and app inbox, supporting both marketing and operational messaging.
• You’ll collaborate on combining vendor tools with custom-built solutions and drive the development of a robust data foundation to support automation and efficient processes for our stakeholders.
• You’ll work with technologies like Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, ArgoCD and Grafana observability stack (LGTM)

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.

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 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? 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.

The recipe for maximum impact

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! Furthermore we think you would be the best geared if you have the following experience:

• At least 8+ years of work experience as a DevOps engineer focused on backend development (Kotlin);
• Knowledge of Spring Boot, Microservices Architecture, Cloud and DevOps;
• Strong knowledge of service design, integrating with 3rd parties, and observability;
• 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.

Bonus points if you:

• Have experience with Kafka and MongoDB;
• If you have experience with building software for marketing campaigns;

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.

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.

An assessment will be part of our selection process