Tech Lead, Picnic Technologies
Infrastructure Platform
Supermarket on wheels
Job no longer available
Supermarket on wheels
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Building the modern milkman - personal service and fresh products in a modern, sustainable way.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field
- You have at least 6 years of professional experience in infrastructure or software engineering
- You have previous experience with leading software or infrastructure engineering projects or teams
- You have experience with architecting and conducting migrations in complex and highly available cloud infrastructure environments
- You are automation first minded. You identify opportunities to automate and improve at every step
- You seek out opportunities to build features and decrease technical debt, complexity and toil
- You apply software engineering practices to infrastructure operations
- You have experience with Terraform(CDK), Pulumi, Helm, Ansible, Chef or similar tools
- You have experience with authoring and/or distributing packages/modules to developers
- You have experience with policy enforcement systems like OPA or AWS Config
- You have a foundational understanding of networking and operating systems that you can apply to reason about more abstract systems and environments
- You’re fluent in English (no Dutch required)
What the job involves
- As a Tech Lead for the Infrastructure Platform team you will lead the team focusing on building a self-service infrastructure provisioning platform
- You will empower the engineering team around you to deliver high quality, secure and performant infrastructure solutions for software product teams at Picnic
- You will establish an infrastructure vision in the domain of self-service infrastructure and help lead the way forward when it comes to infrastructure provisioning automation, quality standards, modularization & abstraction and infrastructure governance
- Lead the team to build scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions, supporting product teams to build and deploy high quality software products
- Enable the seamless and memorable shopping experience of hundreds of thousands of monthly active users, the delivery of tens of thousands of deliveries a day across three major European markets, within Picnic’s own automated supply chain via fast, scalable and secure infrastructure, built upon a modern, state of the art tech stack
- Contribute to an awesome team atmosphere. You'll mentor, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews and moderate discussions to help your team members reach their full potential
- Design and architect infrastructure solutions in a diverse cloud environment, across a diverse range of domains. Picnic is an end-to-end supply chain and shopping experience, and provides end-to-end infrastructure to support it internationally
- Guide the team to be effective and have impact across Picnic’s foundation, supply chain, consumer, data and operational domains
- Work with other Platform and Foundation teams, tech leads and product owners to build a strong ecosystem of Java, Python, CI/CD, Compute, Storage, Security, IAM, Networking, Observability and DevOps platforms and tooling
- Work together with software product teams on building infrastructure innovations for their products, and foster a strong DevOps mindset and culture within software product teams
- Lead the implementation of Picnic’s internal Infrastructure CI/CD platform that enables self-service Infrastructure operations by all development teams across the organisation
- Lead the implementation of a policy enforcement platform that enables Infrastructure and other Foundation teams to enforce rules and patterns around infrastructure operations
Application process
- Phone screening
- Home assignment
- Interviews
- Assessment day
- Offer
Our take
Picnic is one of Europe's largest online supermarkets, quickly growing into a household name with its simple, yet innovative app and green business model. Thanks to its ‘own the supply chain’ model and daily delivery routes (as opposed to on-demand delivery), the company is able to run a low-cost business targeted at the mass market, rather than premium buyers.
One of the major factors in the company’s rampant growth since 2015 is its capacity for free delivery, enabled by these daily delivery routes. The company's fleet has grown from 4 vans to more than 1,000 electric vehicles, cutting down on carbon emissions as it serves its hundreds of thousands of users.
The company's impressive funding - which has been heavily backed by the likes of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the sum of 1.4 billion euros in funding - has enabled Picnic to expand beyond The Netherlands into Germany, France, and further afield. Picnic is well set to see continued growth and expansion as it further disrupts the grocery delivery market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$495.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jan 2024
$409.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company benefits
- Lunch & Learn sessions, soft-skill training, weekly free professional language courses, and the Picnic Tech Academy
- At Picnic you get the freedom to manage and implement your own projects in a scale-up culture
- Freshly prepared and healthy lunch every day, as well as snacks, fruit and drinks
- Access to Openup and Lepaya trainings
- Pension Plan
- Flexible/Hybrid Work Model
- 25 Days Vacation
Leadership
Daniel Gebler
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Researcher at VU University Amsterdam, and was the Director of R&D at Fredhopper.
Frederik Nieuwenhuys
(Co-Founder & Groenteboer)Co-founder and COO of merchandising software Fredhopper, and former Principal at OC&C Strategy Consultants.
Michiel Muller
(Co-Founder)Supervisory board member of FD Mediagroep, investment committee member of InnovationQuater, and former chairman of Erasmus Trustfund.
Joris Beckers
(Co-Founder)Former brand manager at Proctor & Gamble, and co-founder of merchandising software Fredhopper.
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