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Help shape the technology behind one of the Netherlands’ most trusted brands. As our new Frontend Engineer (React, DevOps), you’ll build and run applications that support our store operations domain. Working at the intersection of engineering, retail execution, and business, you’ll help improve the daily operation of 1,200+ Albert Heijn stores while enabling innovation, reliability, and impact at scale.
Build systems that matter at real scale. In this role, you will design and build applications that support business-critical processes used daily across the organization. Your work directly impacts store execution, system reliability, developer productivity, and the ability of teams to deliver features faster and more safely. You will work on production systems at scale, where performance, resilience, and maintainability are first-class concerns.
This is how you will reinvent food retail.
- You design, develop, and operate web/mobile frontend applications using modern engineering practices.
- You work with technologies such as React/NextJS and monorepo architecture.
- You take ownership of applications end-to-end: from design and implementation to production support and continuous improvement, DevOps.
- You collaborate closely with product, UX, store operations, and other engineering teams to make pragmatic technical decisions.
How we work
- Engineers have real ownership and autonomy in technical decisions within our architectural guiderails.
- With the latest DevAI tooling we supercharge our development workflow, automate where we can, giving you more time to focus on creative problem-solving.
- Code quality matters: peer reviews, clear architecture, and readable code are part of daily work.
- Technical debt is acknowledged and addressed.
- We value simple, robust solutions over unnecessary complexity.
Why this role is interesting for engineers
- You’ll work on systems with real users and real impact.
- You'll tackle meaningful engineering challenges, balancing usability, performance, maintainability, and scalability in products that are used every day across our stores and operations.
- You’ll have time and space to improve both the codebase and the way we work.
- You’ll grow technically through exposure to complex systems, experienced engineers, and meaningful ownership
Your new team and office.
You work at the heart of Albert Heijn’s retail operation. We are responsible for supporting the day-to-day processes that enable our stores to run smoothly, efficiently, and consistently for millions of customers every week. Our mission is to empower store colleagues with reliable and intuitive digital products that improve execution, simplify work, and enhance the customer experience.
Together with your full-stack team, you will work on inspiring projects that accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We use data and technology to future-proof food shopping and make healthy food more accessible to everyone.
At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the retail tech domain: a community of diverse individuals working together for our store operations business. Are you ready to reinvent the store of the future, enabling millions of people to buy and enjoy their food every day?
We 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 to our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table. So 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.
The recipe for maximum impact.
- 3+ years of experience with key technologies: React, NextJS, TypeScript, REST API, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and Azure Cloud.
- CI/CD expertise: confident working with continuous integration and deployment, including test automation and release engineering.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you apply clean code principles, security best practices, automated testing, and cloud-native development concepts in your daily work.
- Broader software engineering mindset: while your expertise lies in React, you understand the wider technology landscape, including APIs, backend services, and cloud platforms, and collaborate effectively with engineers across the stack.
- Experience with iterative development: comfortable working in cycles and adapting as you go.
- Excellent English communication skills.
- Business-technical translation: able to turn business needs into technical solutions and work closely with stakeholders.
- Continuous improvement: you spot opportunities for improvement and help shape the technical roadmap.
- Embraced DevAI: you understand their capabilities and limitations and have applied these in your daily work.
- Nice to have: Tailwind, Playwright, Jest/Vitest, SCSS, Figma, and state management libraries.
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 the following, based on 40 hours per week:
- An annual salary up to 71k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your experience.
- 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.
- An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 times more than you as an employee.
- A travel allowance or an 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, up 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.
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