Senior Backend Engineer - Kotlin, Scalable

Albert Heijn; Zaandam; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

AH Tech Academy

Pension plan

Travel allowance/NS-card

Groceries discount

Mijn Albert Heijn Premium

Company laptop and phone

Job summary

Albert Heijn is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join the Point of Sale team within the AH Customer Technology platform. You will design, develop, test and maintain services in Kotlin for 13k+ checkouts and 60k handheld scanners while ensuring reliability and scalability in production.

You will lead technical design within the team, drive automated testing, CI/CD, and security best practices, and mentor colleagues as we migrate to hybrid work and accelerate our food retail technology

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin, Spring Boot and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing and Agile ways of working.
• Big bonus if you have retail, e-commerce or large enterprise exposure.
• You enjoy teamwork, are proactive and passionate about tech.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain software applications and services using Kotlin.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Take a leading role in technical design and implementation within the team.
• Hands-on development: create proofs of concept, write clean code, automate testing, ensure security and code quality.
• Enable growth for both processes and team members.

Skills

Kotlin

Spring Boot

Github Actions

Azure

Kafka

CI/CD

Agile

Automation tests

Team leadership

Security best practices

Tools

Kotlin

Spring Boot

GitHub Actions

Azure

Kafka

Job description

Albert Heijn is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join the Point of Sale team within the AH Customer Technology platform. You will design, develop, test and maintain services in Kotlin for 13k+ checkouts and 60k handheld scanners while ensuring reliability and scalability in production.

You will lead technical design within the team, drive automated testing, CI/CD, and security best practices, and mentor colleagues as we migrate to hybrid work and accelerate our food retail technology