{"id":3971387,"url":"https://alion.io/job/albert-heijn-back-end-engineer-kotlin-stores","title":"Back-End Engineer Kotlin Stores","company":{"id":1772072,"name":"Albert Heijn","domain":"ah.nl","url":"https://alion.io/company/ah-nl","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Getnoticed","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Zaandam, Netherlands"],"countries":["NL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kotlin","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T10:33:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T16:16:10Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":".\nAre you ready to be a part of something transformative? Join the AH Stores as a Kotlin Engineer and embark on a journey to reshape our traditional tech infrastructure into a modern, cutting-edge technology landscape that touches the lives of millions of customers daily!\nAs a Kotlin Engineer, you'll play a leading role in our ongoing transformation and microservice adventure. If you have a fervor for working with leading tech stacks and you enjoy making amazing, then this is the ideal place for you!\nThis is how you will reinvent food retail\nDesign, build, and operate scalable microservices in Kotlin/Java for the Stores Cluster\nTranslate business needs and architectural direction into robust technical solutions\nExperiment with new ideas through proofs of concept and turn them into secure, high-quality, production-ready software\nApply and promote engineering best practices, including automated testing, code quality, security, and maintainability\nContribute to the evolution of technical standards, frameworks, and development guidelines\nCollaborate closely with your product team in agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, deployments, and production support\nShare knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to engineering initiatives across your product cluster and the wider AH Technology Platform\nContinuously improve team effectiveness, engineering practices, and delivery processes to help the team deliver value faster\nYour work will have a direct impact on thousands of Albert Heijn employees, giving you the opportunity to play a key role within the Stores Cluster. As part of a product team, you will develop and support multiple applications and services used by Albert Heijn store employees and business stakeholders. You will work closely with the Product Owner and Product Architect to further evolve our technology landscape. Together with Business and Solution Consultants, you and your team will translate requirements into effective, future-ready solutions.\nYour new team and office\nTogether with your team, you will work on inspiring projects that help accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. By leveraging data and technology, we aim to future-proof food shopping and make healthy food more accessible for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you will collaborate with fantastic colleagues across the data, digital, and tech domains, all sharing a common goal: to create digital solutions that make shopping, both online and in-store, simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to help reinvent the way people buy and enjoy 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 and in the office and our office is located right next to Zaandam train station.\nWe think it’s important to be part of a 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. Don’t you 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!\nWhat we offer\nAt 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):\nAn annual salary up to €80K (holiday allowance and profit share included)\n45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days. Enjoy!\nFlexible working hours\nAccess to a challenging training curriculum\nAn excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than you as an employee\nA travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train\nAttractive discounts on various insurance policies\n10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year\nA free Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits\nA company laptop and telephone\nThe recipe for maximum impact:\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related technical field\n3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with strong expertise in Kotlin and/or Java\nProven experience designing and building scalable cloud-native microservices, ideally on Azure\nSolid experience with event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka\nStrong software craftsmanship mindset, with a passion for clean code, maintainability, automated testing, and continuous improvement\nPractical experience using GenAI development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot as part of daily engineering work. You embrace an AI-first way of working, while understanding when to rely on these tools and when not to\nGood understanding of non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, reliability, and performance\nExcellent English communication skills, both verbal and written\nCollaborative team player with strong stakeholder communication skills\nBased in the Netherlands\nWe’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors.\nAlbert 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.\nTogether we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone!\nThe 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.\nReady to contribute to our mission?\nDo 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! 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