Position: Java Developer (Netherlands)
Company: Picnic
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Do you want to be part of the grocery revolution? At Picnic you get the chance to join a young and forward-thinking startup culture, where everything you do matters. With a data-driven approach and an incredible service, Picnic strives to make grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable for everyone. Known for our just-in-time supply-chain and a unique last-mile delivery strategy, we have become one of the fastest-growing companies of the Netherlands!

**Where you fit in**

Our developers are highly involved and essential to each part of our company. From route planning, scaling our customers’ analytics to handle enormous chunks of data, to calculating how many bananas we should have in our warehouse on a Thursday — our teams write, plan, and predict.

As one of our Java Developers, you grab ownership of projects, grow, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You design, test, evolve, and evaluate the nuts and bolts of our operation while offering a creative and analytical approach. You feel at home writing platforms and display an intricate understanding of how each line of code fits into a business plan.

At Picnic your skills will be complemented with the latest tech and our diverse projects will keep you challenged and motivated. From designing, developing, and testing new user-facing features, to optimizing supply chain systems and improving the scalability and security of our platform: you’ll be managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, while finding yourself fully immersed in an engaging startup culture.

We don’t hide what we do. Instead, we open-source with the community that helped us grow.
Here’s proof: https://picnic.tech/

**Who you are:**
— You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
— You have at least 3 years of professional experience in programming and software development
— You have a profound understanding of back-end development, including Java, Spring MVC, MongoDB, — Elastic and PostgreSQL
— Your English skills are on point

**The tech we use:**
— Java 11 (Reactor and Spring 5)
— ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Kinesis
— Maven and Git
— PostgreSQL, MongoDB
— Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
— AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault

Hungry for more? Check out https://stackshare.io/companies/picnic-technologies for an overview of our tech stack.

**We offer**

Located in Amsterdam, our fun-filled office is the best place for you to focus on your Picnic projects. Equipped with your favorite hardware and surrounded by like-minded people, you’ll grow professionally and personally while enjoying the startup life along the way. We like to keep our 40-hour work-week flexible around here.

Our tech team consists of 20 product teams, which handle tons of innovative projects. Sharing, mentoring and keeping up to date is a must at Picnic: Meetups, webinars, Lunch & Learn sessions, and our very own Tech academy make sure that’s taken care of. Your soft skills will get some attention as well, with tailored training and courses.

Our salaries are market competitive and our pension program will put your mind at ease.

**Relocation package?**
Sure! If you join Picnic from abroad, we’ll cover your trip to Amsterdam, sponsor your Visa, and offer you a month of accommodation while you settle in.

If you are joining us from a country that doesn’t allow traveling to the Netherlands just yet, there's a chance that your onboarding could take place remotely. We had lots of new team members starting their Picnic-journey remotely already, you can have a peek at how it's going via https://bit.ly/3wLuGZv


We are on the hunt for Java Developers who are looking to make a difference. Is this you?