Key Skills

Job Description

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? Are you ready to be a part of something transformative? Join the AH Stores as a Junior Kotlin Engineer 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 Junior Kotlin Engineer, you'll play a supporting role in our ongoing transformation and microservice adventure. If you have a fervor for working with leading tech stacks like Kotlin, Java, Kafka, helping make amazing applications for the Stores landscape, and much more, then this is the ideal place for you! This Is How You Will Reinvent Food Retail Design, build, and operate scalable microservices in Kotlin/Java for the Stores Cluster Collaborate with your team to translate the business needs into robust technical solutions Experiment with new ideas and concepts and help turn them into secure, highquality, production-ready software Learn, apply and promote the best engineering practices, including automated testing, code quality, security, and maintainability Work closely with your product team in agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, deployments, and production support Your work will directly impact thousands of Albert Heijn employees, making this a great opportunity to play a meaningful role within the Stores Cluster. As part of a product team, you will build and support applications and services that are essential to our store operations and business stakeholders. You will collaborate closely with the Product Owner and Product Architect to shape and evolve our technology landscape. Together with Business and Solution Consultants, you will turn business needs into smart, scalable solutions. Your new team and office Together with your team, you will work on inspiring projects that help accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. By leveraging data and technology, we aim to future-proof food shopping and make healthy food more accessible for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you will collaborate with fantastic colleagues across the data, digital, and tech domains, all sharing a common goal: to create digital solutions that make shopping, both online and in-store, simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to help reinvent the way people buy and enjoy 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 and in the office and our office is located right next to Zaandam train station. 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 €75K (holiday allowance and Profitshare are included) 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 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 Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits A company laptop and telephone The recipe for maximum impact: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related technical field Good foundation in backend engineering with Kotlin and/or Java Experience designing and building cloud-native microservices; experience with Azure is a plus Familiarity with event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka is a plus Passion for clean, maintainable code, with a solid understanding of software testing practices and tools Experience using GenAI development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot Eagerness to grow towards an AI-first way of working, with an understanding of the strengths, limitations, and risks of using GenAI tools Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken Collaborative team player with strong communication skills and a willingness to learn from others Based in the Netherlands 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. 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 will be part of our selection process.

Core Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate scalable Kotlin and Java microservices for the Stores Cluster, translating business needs into secure, maintainable production software. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders on agile planning, deployments, experimentation, and production support for applications essential to store operations.

Requirements

A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, IT, or a related technical field is requested, along with a solid foundation in backend engineering using Kotlin and/or Java. Candidates should be familiar with microservices, testing, and GenAI development tools, communicate effectively in English, work collaboratively, be eager to learn, and be based in the Netherlands; Azure and Kafka experience are advantages.

Benefits

• Paid Leave
• Flexible Working Hours
• Training and Development
• Pension Plan
• Travel Allowance or Public Transport Pass
• Insurance Discounts
• Employee Grocery Discount
• Free Premium Membership
• Company Laptop
• Company Telephone