How do you make our customers happy?
By ensuring a flawless delivery of short- and long-term logistical network plans! These plans should be build up with accurate and reliable data for our stakeholders to ensure an optimally aligned plan to meet customer demand with logistical capacity. As an engineer in team Network Planning, you will design, support and implement scalable solutions for these logistical network plans. A complex puzzle to make together with your team members who include both engineers and data scientists. Ultimately, your involvement and technical skills will determine the accuracy and usefulness of the network plans, thereby directly contributing to key organizational goals.
What you will do as a software/ data engineer Network Planning
You are expected to write clean, maintainable code with solid test coverage and advocate for best practices in software design. Code reviews will be a regular part of your routine—not just to keep quality high, but also to share knowledge. You’ll build and fine-tune data pipelines in Apache Airflow, keeping things running smoothly while making sure model jobs execute efficiently. Keeping an eye on our cloud workloads, jumping in when issues arise, and squeezing the most out of SQL queries and Python memory will be all in a day’s work. You’ll also focus on making life easier for process analysts and data scientists by ensuring a good user experience. And, of course, you’ll collaborate with other teams to help shape the technical direction of our projects. If you love solving problems and working with great people, we’d love to have you on board!
What we are looking for
We are on the outlook for a senior engineer who has a keen eye on delivering robust solutions for newly discovered functionalities improvement for our network plans. Our new colleague should have the tendency to “look up” from the day-to-day work and foresee important technical initiatives that will keep our team and OpEx and innovation speed on par. As this team is delivering direct impact to one of the major organizational goals for 2026, a pragmatic attitude towards solutions and their feasibility is important. Also, we prefer someone with a strong focus on collaboration and who is proactive in knowledge sharing, discussing feedback with team members to help them grow and improve.
Overview of required hard skills:
Strong experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow)
Strong experience with data transformations and modeling (e.g., dbt)
Experience in Python
Solid background in cloud environments (preferably with Google Cloud)
Sufficient in working with tools such as Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana
Where you will work
The Network Planning team is responsible for creating optimal logistical network plans for our warehouses by trading off customer demand against available capacity, costs and distribution. The team consists of four engineers and four data scientists that together define accurate network plans that stakeholders use for different purposes, such as allocating stock to our warehouses. The Network Planning team is part of Capacity Steering, a domain within Core Logistics II area within bol.
3 reasons why this is (not) for you
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Complexity Allergic
You are uncomfortable with complexity and ambiguity
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Quick iterations are nothing for you
You like to build the most fancy tools and code before really testing if it solves the problems
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Code-Only thinker
You have lack of interest in applied-problem solving or understanding business contex
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Code Ninja
You enjoy working with Python and Airflow, and have hands-on experience with cloud technologies
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Team player
You like to work in a cross-functional team in which you help each other achieving results together
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Impact maker
You thrive on turning ideas into production-ready code that drives real impact
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Bonus
The bonus is calculated at the end of the year and we always end the year with a fun party!
On and off
At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 29 days of vacation.
The culture and the office
Our colleagues work hard to make the daily lives of our customers easier and more fun. But of course, we do this in an inspiring and creative environment!
The internal application process
So you’ve found an exciting opportunity within bol! Here’s what happens next:
Your application
We carefully review your application and will get back to you soon to let you know if we’re moving forward. We aim to get in touch with you as soon as possible.
First contact
If you're invited to an interview, we’ll reach out to schedule a meeting. This is also your chance to ask any questions you may have about the role, the team, or the process.
The interview
In this conversation, we’ll get to know each other better. We’ll discuss your experience, skills, and how you contribute to our shared mission. We’ll also explore whether the role aligns with your ambitions and how you embody bol’s Leadership Behaviours. Depending on the role, a second interview may follow.
Is it a match?
If we both feel it’s the right fit, we’ll make you an offer and discuss the next steps. Time to start your next chapter at bol!
Any questions?
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