Software Engineer (AI Development, Kotlin/Java, Microservices)

The DevAI team is looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about AI-assisted development and wants to help other engineers in Albert Heijn adopt the new ways of working.  

We are a small team of six, and you will join as a core member. Our mission is to accelerate adoption of AI-assisted development and help teams move from legacy systems to modern, scalable tech stacks by embedding AI into everyday workflows.

This role combines strong software engineering skills with an interest in developer enablement, experimentation, and cross-team collaboration.  

Rather than building product features, this role focuses on improving how engineering teams build and deliver software.

Our work is inherently dynamic. Priorities evolve quickly as we learn, and we regularly adjust direction based on new insights. You should be comfortable operating in an environment with ambiguity, frequent change, and short feedback loops.  

At the same time, we value focus and clarity - ensuring that when we commit to a direction, we drive it with intent and follow through.  

This is how you will reinvent food retail tech. 

• Evaluate emerging AI tools and development workflows and share practical learnings across teams  


• Contribute to enablement initiatives such as guides, trainings, workshops, hackathons 


• Support migrations from legacy systems to modern tech stack, by defining best practices and scaling to more teams  


• Engage in activities that will improve software development processes in general 

Your new team and office.
Together with your team, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. At Albert Heijn, 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! 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 Zaandam. 

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. So 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!

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.

What we are looking for:  

Fundamentals 

• 8+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer.  


• Strong coding skills, with a keen ability to distinguish high-quality, maintainable code from poor implementations 


• Strong hands-on experience using AI coding tools in day-to-day development. 


• Curiosity and interest in experimenting with new tools and ways of working. 


• Comfortable in rapidly changing, ambiguous environments 

Collaboration and Enablement

• Experience working in collaborative development environments. 


• Comfortable helping other engineers improve their workflows. 


• Able to guide technical discussions and provide constructive feedback. 


• Able to work constructively with teams that may be skeptical about new tooling. 

Nice to have 

• Experience in coaching others 


• Experience contributing to training, documentation, or internal enablement. 


• Interest beyond coding, such as QA, developer experience, product and business context, development tooling and workflows 

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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