Java Developer

About bol

Bol is the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Position

How do you make our customers happy?

With 13 million customers, 129 million monthly visits and about 34 million products on display, bol.com is the most successful online retail platform in The Netherlands and Belgium. And when we say ‘platform’, we mean it. Well over 47000 external partners – and counting – enrich the product base. Data-driven, adventurous (making mistakes is no biggie, as long as learnings are shared), we intend to deliver on our promise to make life easier and more fun for customers. And that is exactly what our IT professionals (25% internationals) do.

What you get

Working at bol.com is challenging and therefore you get something in return. Besides salary, you will also get:

• A yearly bonus
• The opportunity to work broad
• A flexible work culture
• Holiday allowance
• Holiday entitlement of 29 days
• Travel allowance
• A place where you can be 100% you
• Group insurance and more!

We warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel home as soon as possible. During your onboarding program, we give you all the ins and outs about bol.com! 

The biggest challenge

Although our business model may sound familiar, our approach to network retailing sets us apart from the usual suspects. So much so, in fact, that while we admire the achievements of international platforms, we don’t necessarily consider them our peers. We opt for a more localized approach (up close and personal!) and our ways of working reflect our idiosyncratic DNA. At bol.com, it’s all about autonomy and taking ownership, so end-to-end responsibility is the norm. Can you shoulder that?

Your responsibilities

As Software Engineer, you will join one of our product teams. We believe in ownership, and you will have a mandate (together with your team) to develop features end-to-end. At bol.com, we are big on autonomy, and that makes us strong: we expect you to make all (technical) choices along the way but also to assume ownership when things go awry. You build it – you run it – you love it is our mantra, and we live it every day. Every product team is part of a Fleet – every Fleet part of a Space.

As for your GPS location within the bol.com universe, check out which one you may call your (temporary, because moving between spaces is possible) home.

Job specs

• Develop clean, high-performance code that facilitates and inspires over 10 million customers, 23k partners, and almost 1.900 colleagues
• Think of ways to make solutions scalable and future-proof
• Help your team grow and team up with business stakeholders to ensure that solutions add customer value
• Take full, end-to-end ownership over team solutions
• Experiment with cutting-edge technology – including technology you add to the stack

No matter the space you’ll join, your tech stack includes:

• Java (8 or higher)
• Kotlin
• Go
• Google Cloud stack

3 reasons why this is(not) for you:

• Yes, because you take pride in writing high-quality code, and are versed in Java and (some of) ↑
• Yes, because you’re a true pioneer, both when it comes to coding and technology
• Yes, because you want to team up with a market leader that feels like a scaleup
• Not, because business concerns don't concern you #letthemeatcode
• Not, because you don't believe the land of 'weed, windmills and wooden shoes' has much to offer to techies
• Not, because you want to be taken by the hand; autonomy and ownership are not your thing

Where you’ll work:

As Java Developer, you’ll join a Scrum team you can always rely on for feedback and continuous professional growth. The setting? Think ‘campus’, including a game room and soccer field. Despite our size, we make fun of rigid rules and traditional work structures. We may be a market leader, but you won’t get a whiff of the corporate odor you associate with that. Our strength derives from working together as equals and constantly improving each other. After all, you can accomplish great things on your own, but so much more with your colleagues! Given that over 25% of our IT fleet consists of internationals – if you want the receipe for a celebratory Brazilian feijoada or want to sample authentic Greek mezze, Utrecht is the place to be – we have a lot of relocation experience. As for our ways of working, check out the videos. For info on current challenges (yep, we share code), check out our Techlab!

Additional details

About bol.com

For over 13 million people in the Netherlands and Belgium, bol.com is their go-to online shop. On our platform, they can find over 34 million products. These items are not just offered by bol.com but primarily by our 47,000 partners: entrepreneurs who work together with bol.com to reach their customers. Together we aim to create the best online retail tech platform for our customers and partners, giving them a personal and inspiring experience. To achieve that goal we research, innovate, experiment and build. Every day.

To our customers, bol.com might seem just a website, an app and a parcel on their doormat. But at the scale we operate, you may already be imagining: it is much more. It’s about hundreds of different applications, each providing a clear capability. Together they form our tech retail platform. Tech impacts the whole process, from assets on the virtual shelves to items in the shopping baskets, from products in the warehouse to parcels at the front door. Altogether we run millions of lines of code in a modern microservices architecture, all created by our tech professionals. Furthermore, we do not just write code, we also experiment. We research data, and together with other disciplines we are continuously discovering ways to improve our products.