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We are looking for a proactive and motivated Senior Backend Engineer to join our innovation-focused team at Albert Heijn.
You will work on the next generation of digital experiences, including Steijn, our AI-powered chatbot used by millions of customers. We’re looking for engineers who have practical experience with LLMs, agent systems, or AI-driven applications, not just an interest in AI, but real hands-on work.
You will work on real production systems, shaping how conversational experiences and backend platforms come together at scale.
This is how you will reinvent food retail
Your new team and office
You will join a team focused on building the backend foundations behind Albert Heijn’s newest digital products.
We turn ideas into production-ready systems that operate at scale. This includes designing APIs, integrating with existing AH systems, and ensuring reliable data flows across a complex retail landscape.
Our work varies. Some initiatives involve AI-driven experiences such as our chatbot Steijn, while others focus on backend integrations or platform capabilities. The common denominator is strong backend engineering and ownership.
Together with your team of (Product Owners/Backend Developers/Mobile Developers) 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.
We think it’s important to be part of an 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 to 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 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!
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):
The recipe for maximum impact
AI / LLM experience (required)
This is not a general backend role. Candidates without hands-on experience with AI/LLM systems are unlikely to be a fit!
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?✅
Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? ✅
The leading online food retail platform? ✅
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 are 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.
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