Lead Backend Engineer

Would you like to work on a newly designed and built employee solution with a modern tech stack, which is used by thousands and thousands of employees of Albert Heijn?

As a Lead/Senior Backend Developer, you can make a direct impact on a priority project in a fast-developing environment. 

• You get to work with modern technologies, and since this is a new-build solution we have zero legacy.
• Everything we build is scalable, using Azure and Microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and Kafka. We work in small increments so we’re able to put things live straight away, hence reduce our time to market.
• We work in a multi-disciplinarian team with back-end developers and UKG configuration experts.

This is how you will reinvent food retail

More specifically, as Backend Developer you

• Are the Lead software engineer, guiding other Backend developers
• Understand how to technically scale the services in the ‘employee experience platform’, our work force management solution
• Understand how to combine best agile development practices in combination with a services-based architecture
• Are an expert on ‘your’ domain (Kotlin back-end services on our Azure Kubernetes platform), though you can also liaise with other senior engineers and their respective technologies
• Although your focus is developing integrations between our back-end services and our UKG SaaS solution, you would like to learn about UKG and WFM as well
• You collaborate closely with the PO to prepare the user stories for the team

We are seeking a Lead/Senior Backend Developer to support and enhance the integration between our organization’s core back-end systems and the UKG Workforce Management (WFM) SaaS solution.This integration will support a growing Workforce Management (WFM) solution for 800+ stores across the country and will later extend to cover our supply chain operations and ecommerce delivery workforce.

As a passionate Engineer, you own the realization of new features. You lead the team in keeping up the high security and coding standards of the platform, push the engineering skills of the team, and develop new features using the latest technology.You participate in standups and refinements, develop code, enforce code quality, develop best practices, write tests and manage the continuous integration of code. As a Senior Engineer you support product or platform architects and are the technical point of contact for product owners and heads of tech. Beyond your own team, you contribute to the AH Tech community via Guilds, inner source initiatives, and more.

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 the 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 of Zaandam.