Backend Developer (Kotlin, Microservices, Azure)

Albert Heijn Group; Zaandam; Hybrid; EUR 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

An annual salary up to 80K including a

flexible bonus

Travel NS-business card

Job summary

Albert Heijn is hiring a backend developer to help reinvent the Sales Accounting services with Kotlin/Java microservices on Azure. You will work in the Sales Accounting DevOps team, doing roughly 70% new development and 30% maintaining data flows, while ensuring security and quality.

You will contribute to technical designs, implement solutions, and review peers’ code. The role requires strong backend experience, Scrum familiarity, and willingness to work hybrid from Zaandam with occasional

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating scalable backend systems with Kotlin or Java/Spring Boot in a microservices environment.
• 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 (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

Responsibilities

• Write code, automate tests, deploy and maintain backend services.
• Collaborate with engineers and product owner to design and implement scalable microservices on Azure.
• Drive technical quality and help the team maintain pace in Scrum cadence.
• Mentor peers and take ownership of architectural decisions within the team.
• Ensure security considerations are integrated and uphold data integrity across services.
• Be available for on-call rotation as part of operational responsibilities.

Skills

Kotlin

Java/Spring Boot

Kafka

Kubernetes

Relational databases

Solution design

Mentoring

Stakeholder relationships

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Azure

Job description

Working as a backend developer for AH Technology means you help us build the applications our Finance department runs on. We are in the middle of a transformation: the old processes and systems are being replaced by newer ones. We are looking for a developer who wants to help drive that change rather than wait for it.

Your new job.

As a backend developer you join the Sales Accounting DevOps team, which runs the Sales Accounting services and is rebuilding them at the same time. You work closely with the other engineers in the team and with the product owner. Roughly 70% of your week goes to new development, the rest to keeping the current data flows running. The ambition is to move every legacy sales accounting flow onto Kotlin microservices on Azure, and you can be one of the people who gets that done.

You help write the technical designs, build the solutions, and then deploy and maintain them. Most of your time is hands‑on: your own code and reviewing your colleagues'. You are one of the people the team leans on for technical quality, without losing the pace we hold in our Scrum cadence. The team works in English, so you do not need Dutch for this role.

We work hybrid, from home and from the office. The team is in Zaandam once or twice a week. The office is a short walk from the station and you get an NS Business Card.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Replace our legacy Finance landscape with services that can carry the volume our core business keeps adding.
• Write the code, automate the tests, keep security in mind, and help decide how the team builds and deploys.
• Be the colleague who clears obstacles for the rest of the team instead of stepping around them.

Making room for differences.

We believe that everyone should feel comfortable being themselves and feel welcome and valued at work. We embrace different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds, and actively work to build engaged teams where everyone has the opportunity to contribute. We believe that different perspectives help us make better decisions and achieve better results together.

We look at the talents, knowledge, experience and personality you bring. Don’t meet every requirement but still see yourself in this role? We encourage you to apply. We welcome candidates with different backgrounds and experiences and are curious to hear what you can bring and what you would like to contribute.

The recipe for maximum impact.

• Strong 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 goodinterpersonal 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

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 80K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus.
• 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 – 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 might be part of our selection process.