Engineer DevOps Tech Merchandise & MDM (React.js) – Albert Heijn Nederland – Zaandam

Vacatures Zaandam; Zaandam; On-site; EUR 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to €80k

45 days leave

Flexible hours

AH Tech Academy

Pension plan

Travel allowance

Grocery discounts

Mijn AH Premium

Laptop and phone

Job summary

Albert Heijn is seeking a Frontend Engineer to advance our Promotions area within the Retail Business Platform. You’ll work on sales promotions and campaigns to benefit consumers, ensuring 24/7 uptime on mission-critical systems.

Join a cutting-edge tech environment and contribute to architecture, best practices, and component design. This role emphasizes collaboration, quality, and innovative frontend skills in a dynamic retail tech landscape.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years in front-end engineering.
• 4–6 years with React.js and solid fundamentals.
• Experience with React Query for data fetching/state.
• Familiarity with Storybook for isolated UI components.
• Strong UI/UX sense and CSS/CSS-in-JS implementation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical architecture, standards, and guidelines.
• Develop scalable frontend solutions on a modern foundation.
• Create proofs of concept, write tests, ensure security and quality.
• Share expertise within the product cluster and broader platform.
• Collaborate as a valued team member and remove obstacles.
• Propose technical/process improvements with colleagues.

Skills

React.js

React Query

Storybook

CSS-in-JS

UI/UX

Tools

Swagger

Jest

React Testing Library

Job description

As a Frontend Engineer, you will help advance Albert Heijn’s technology landscape into a modern, cutting‑edge environment.

You will join the Promotions area of our Retail Business Platform execution cluster, working with teams responsible for creating sales promotions and campaigns that benefit Albert Heijn consumers, while ensuring 24/7 uptime on mission‑critical environments.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

Responsibilities

• Help advance our current technology landscape by contributing to technical architecture, standards, and guidelines.
• Develop technical solutions in a modern, innovative technology foundation to scale our core business.
• Develop proofs of concept, write code, implement and run automated tests, ensure security and code quality, and develop best practices.
• Share your expertise and contribute to initiatives within your product cluster and the broader Albert Heijn retail technology platform.
• Be a valued team member who contributes and removes obstacles.
• Share technical and process‑improvement ideas with colleagues in your team.

Qualifications

• Overall 6‑10 years of front‑end engineering experience.
• At least 4‑6 years of front‑end engineering experience with deep hands‑on experience using React.js and an understanding of its core concepts, ecosystem, best practices, and patterns.
• Familiarity with integrating and utilizing React Query for efficient and optimized data fetching and state management in React applications.
• Knowledge of Storybook for developing UI components in isolation, promoting a modular and systematic approach to frontend development.
• Strong proficiency in UI/UX principles and a keen eye for design aesthetics, able to translate them into CSS/CSS‑in‑JS solutions.

Bonus Points

• Experience using Recharts or a similar library for data visualization.
• Knowledge of frontend testing frameworks such as Jest and React Testing Library, and the ability to write unit tests for React components.
• Experience with Swagger.
• Experience consuming third‑party APIs.
• Experience with relational databases and knowledge of basic SQL.

Benefits

• Annual salary up to €80,000, including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus.
• 45 days of paid leave (25.5 regular vacation days and 19.5 ADV days).
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• Excellent pension plan with an employer contribution of 4.5 times the employee contribution.
• Travel allowance or a N S‑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, capped at €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

A technical assessment will be part of the selection process.

Please note that Dutch is not required for this role.