Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin/Microservices/Azure)

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Working as a Senior Backend developer for AH technology means that you help us build modern backend applications for our Finance department. We are currently in the midst of a transformation where processes and systems are moving towards newer technologies. We are looking for a developer with an entrepreneurial mindset who can drive this change with us! 

Your new job 
As a backend developer, you become part of the DevOps Finance Order-to-cash team that is responsible for the maintenance and operations of multiple systems. The team has great ambitions to move from an older tech stack (Oracle 12c Forms ) to a modern software product. You can be a driving force in implementing this change. An important application you will be working on is the Payment Accounting Service, where we will reconcile our incoming payments with sales. 


As a senior developer with lead experience, you will participate in creating technical design and provide technical leadership within the team. You will also support and mentor team members by sharing your experience.

Together with the other developers, you will also be responsible for maintaining the existing legacy systems. You are expected to spend most of your time on hands-on delivery and code reviews, while ensuring technical quality and delivery speed within our Agile Scrum way of working.

In this role, you will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Architects, and other stakeholders. Dutch is not required for this role.   

Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home and in the office. Our team goes to the office in Zaandam once or twice a week. We are located near the train station and offer a NS-train card.   

Our team 
The finance tech teams work in close cooperation with both the Albert Heijn business finance department and external parties that perform administrative operations on behalf of Albert Heijn. The order-to-cash team focuses on applications around billing, sales accounting and cash accounting. The team consists of backend developers with a strong background in the legacy systems (Oracle PLSQL and Forms/Reports) and developers specialized in services, messaging and backend services (kotlin) . 

This is how you will reinvent food retail. 

• Help rebuild our traditional tech landscape and create new applications in a modern innovative tech foundation (high code front-end) to scale our ever-growing core business.   


• Build code, implement, and execute automated testing, ensure security, code quality, and contribute to best practices and deployment.  


• Be a valued team member, that contributes and removes obstacles.  


• Integrate and expand our price management capacity.   

 
The recipe for maximum impact  
We think it’s important to be part of a highly 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 to 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 that:   

• 8+ years of experience building and operating scalable backend systems with Kotlin or Java/Spring Boot in a microservices environment 


• Have experience with event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka) and designing scalable backend services  


• Experience with cloud-native environments, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling and Infrastructure-as-Code (preferably Terraform) 


• Solid understanding of relational databases and designing backend systems with a strong focus on scalability, performance and data integrity 


• Experience taking technical ownership, driving solution design and architecture decisions within a team, while mentoring other developers 


• Has good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, 


• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions together with Product Owners and stakeholders 


• Based in the Netherlands and able to work hybrid from Zaandam 


• Willing to participate in an on-call/standby rotation as part of the team’s operational responsibilities 


• GraphQL experience is considered a plus  

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 105K 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.    

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 will be part of our selection process.  

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