Senior Software Engineer - Consumer Products

Overview

In a nutshell, At Picnic, we’re redefining how people buy groceries by making shopping effortless, sustainable, and fun. Our Consumer domain is at the heart of this transformation, creating customer-facing features that delight millions of users across Europe.

From developing personalized shopping experiences, like our Meal Planner, to building engaging loyalty programs, we focus on delivering a high-quality, intuitive user experience by building scalable solutions with the latest tech. If you’re passionate about building impactful products used by millions daily, this is the place for you!

Tricks of the trade

• Ownership: Take ownership of projects from concept to production. Work collaboratively, grow alongside your team, and contribute to the team’s success.
• Impact: Develop solutions that make shopping smarter, faster, and more intuitive. Your code will power seamless, scalable, and personalized interactions for millions of users.
• Agility: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where you learn and use a wide variety of tools and platforms to build the best tech for our customers.
• Amplification: You’ll share knowledge, empower your colleagues and multiply your impact beyond what you could achieve on your own.
• Platform thinking: Build technology that empowers developers and business analysts alike to develop flexible features.
• Our Tech: You’ll work with Java and TypeScript on a daily basis, using frameworks like Spring (Spring with Spring Boot, Reactor, Immutables) and React. Supporting this core stack are GraalVM, Apache Calcite, Maven, Python 3.x, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Helm, Terraform, Vault, and Datadog.

We’re looking for

• You have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field.
• You have 5+ years of professional experience in Java.
• You have a product mindset and treat technology as a means to an end, owning and solving business problems by choosing the best-fitting technical solutions and tools for each challenge.
• You are fluent in working with AI and can effectively accelerate your output with orchestrated agentic workflows.
• Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required).

Picnic Perks

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

Benefits and culture

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place.

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of activities to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to company trips.

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our Picnic barista has you covered.

Mental health is important. We offer confidential support and access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are various sports communities and events to join, from tennis to yoga to climbing.

We offer a competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, plus 25 vacation days per year to recharge your batteries.

We provide relocation support for expats to help with starting a new job in a new country. See our relocation benefits for details.