Java Graduate Program, Picnic Technologies

• You have (or will soon have) a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• Black dot
• Recent graduates and early-career professionals with up to 1 year of professional experience
• Willingness to learn technologies to create systems at scale
• Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required)
• Green dot
• You are available to start this position full time in January 2026!

Desirable

• This program offers a rare chance to step directly into a real production environment, contributing to systems that operate at scale while strengthening both your technical and behavioral skills
• Through the Picnic Tech Academy, you’ll explore topics ranging from Java Clean code to reactive programming and MongoDB, while also developing key capabilities like collaboration and a growth mindset
• You’ll learn to balance project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables—building the foundation for a successful engineering career
• Picnic has over 20 Java backend development teams, each highly involved with and essential to all parts of the company
• From enabling a smooth shopping experience to ensuring we fulfill our customers’ orders efficiently in our warehouses, there’s a wide range of products to work on
• Product teams are also supported by the work of our platform teams on key technologies and infrastructure
• Green dot
• Growth: Level up your development and behavioral skills through our 6 months Tech Academy and with the guidance of your mentor
• Contribution: Become a part of one of our product teams from day one and start contributing to Picnic from the get-go
• Ownership: Get to work on increasingly challenging tasks and projects, growing all the time, and working collaboratively with your colleagues
• Our Tech: Java 21 (Reactor and Spring 6), RabbitMQ and Kafka, Maven and Git, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault (Hungry for more? Check out https://stackshare.io/picnic-technologies for an overview of our tech stack)