Staff Engineer, Picnic Technologies
Java
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office
Supermarket on wheels
Open for applications
Supermarket on wheels
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office
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 7 years of experience and a profound understanding of back-end development including Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- You have at least 2 years of experience in leading projects and/or teams
- You have solid problem-solving skills and enjoy complex challenges
- You have great English skills (no Dutch required) and are able to structure your thoughts and express them clearly verbally and in writing
What the job involves
- 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
- Finding the right team to join is a breeze through a ‘Tech Safari’ that will be organized after your onboarding
- You’ll get to join three different teams for a week, to find the best match
- 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
- Shaping: As a Staff Engineer in one of our domains, you’ll work with stakeholders from tech and the business to translate requirements into resilient and scalable solutions
- Impact: You’ll provide expertise in cross-product projects and company-wide technology decisions
- Mastery: You feel at home writing reliable code and proactively look for ways to improve code, technologies, and processes employed by your team
- Expertise: You are able to communicate your views both when specifying new features with stakeholders and while providing technical mentorship to your colleagues
- Leadership: As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead by example, not by title
- The Tech Stack Driving Our Mission: Java 21 (Spring 6 with Spring Boot 3, Reactor, Immutables, Maven)
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
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$365.4m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$617.6m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
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
Company values
- Innovation On All Fronts - From distribution model to warehouse system: we improve something new every day. For our customers and for ourselves
- We Develop In-House - We’re true DIYers. Our own products are distributed through our own warehouses that run on our own software
- Data At The Core Of Our Business - With us, being “data-driven” is more than just a buzzword. Data lives in everything we do
Articles
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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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Picnic Technologies
- At Picnic everyone has equal opportunities. We base all our decisions in the application process on qualifications and merit. Applicants will be independently assessed regardless of age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color , marital status, religion, physical or mental disabilities, or other factors protected by law. We do our best every day to create a safe, inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves
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