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Would you like to work on a newly designed and built employee solution, which is used by thousands and thousands of employees of Albert Heijn? As a Back End Engineer, you can make a direct impact on a priority project, using modern technologies in a fast-developing environment.
Your new job and office
You probably already know who we are. Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 130 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. Over 1,000 stores? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it. So what’s next? Accelerating our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company is. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and make better food more easily accessible to everyone. At AH Technology, 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!
About the job
Being a Backend Engineer for our Digital Employee Experience in the AH Retail Tech Platform, means you are responsible for all the back-end services of Albert Heijn's employee app, called ‘@AH’, used by more than 100.000 employees. This app has many functionalities, like checking out the AH news, connecting to colleagues via chat, and view work schedules. But even more exciting there’s much more on our roadmap for the upcoming months and years, like GenAI, task management, digital onboarding and training, and scaling to new business units and other brands. As a passionate Medior Engineer, you help with the realization of new features. You contribute by keeping up the high security and coding standards of the platform. Develop new features using the latest technology, and by leveraging GenAI-powered development tools effectively.
You participate in standups and refinements, develop code, enforce code quality, develop best practices, write tests and manage the continuous integration of code. More specifically, as a Backend Engineer you:
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Develop a feature-rich product for our employees, guided by a senior developer
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Understand how to technically scale the services in the ‘employee experience platform’, which empowers the “@AH app”
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Understand how to combine best agile development practices in combination with a services-based architecture
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Are knowledgeable of your domain (Kotlin back-end services on our Azure Kubernetes platform), though you can also liaise with other engineers and their respective technologies (Front and Back End)
Why we believe this is a cool job
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You get to work with modern technologies, and since this is a new-build solution, we have zero legacy
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Opportunity to learn more about test automation, IT security. As long as you have a solid background as a backend developer (Kotlin)
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Everything we build in the app is scalable, using Azure and Microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines. We work in small increments so we’re able to put things live straight away, hence reduce our time to market
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We work in a multi-disciplinarian team; with dedicated QA, UX designer, developers, product owner. In total the team consists of 8+ people
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This initiative, building an employee app for your own colleagues, is a priority project for Albert Heijn, with the potential of scaling to other brands within Ahold Delhaize
What do you bring
At AH Technology you will be working for one of the biggest food retailers in the Netherlands. To be successful as our new medior back end engineer you bring:
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A Technology/IT Engineering bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent work experience
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You know your technology stack: you have experience with Kotlin and some experience with MongoDB, Azure, Docker, k8s and / or Kafka
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Know your way around with CI/CD, including test automation integrations and release engineering automation (fyi, we use Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions)
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Effective communication in English
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Nice to have: knowledge of React Native
The right ingredients for an impactful job, based on a 40 hours work week:
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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)
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An annual salary up to €80K including holiday allowance and profit sharing. Depending on your experience
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45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days. Enjoy!
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Flexible working hours
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Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy
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An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than you as an employee
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A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;
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Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
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10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year
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A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits
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A company laptop and telephone
Your new office
Curious about your colleagues? At AH Technology you work with the best experts in the field. In an open environment, where expertise is valued, where we learn from each other and have the freedom to innovate. We work in a hybrid way, where we meet (on average) 2 days at the office in Zaandam, what is close to the train station, and 8 min from Amsterdam ;-). 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
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Passie voor je vakgebied
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