Software Engineer

About bol

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

Position

How do you make our customers happy?
With 10 million customers, 30 million monthly visits and about 16 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 23,500 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 500 IT professionals (25% internationals), who comprise 90+ autonomous Scrum teams, do.

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 a Software Engineer

• Develop clean, high-performance code that facilitates and inspires over 10 million customers, 23k partners, and almost 2.000 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 tooling – including tooling you add to the stack

As Software Engineer, you will join one of our Scrum 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 Scrum 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.

Check out our spaces

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(n’t) for you
+ Because you take pride in writing high quality code, and are versed in Java and (some of)
+ Because you’re a true pioneer, both when it comes to coding and tooling
+ Because you want to team up with a market leader that feels like a scaleup

- Because business concerns don’t concern you #letthemeatcode
- Because you don’t believe the land of ‘weed, windmills and wooden shoes’ has much to offer to techies
- Because you want to be taken by the hand; autonomy & ownership are not your thing

Where you’ll work
As Software Engineer, 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!

Also, do check the Techlab for our latest IT-blogs, including current challenges!

What you get

• Daily treats

With good food, you get happy bol.commers. That's why we make sure there are a lot of lunch possibilities, if you want a quick bite, a snack or a healthy salad.

• Money and more...

Working at bol.com is challenging and therefore you get something in return. Besides salary, you will receive a yearly bonus, holiday allowance, holiday entitlement of 29 days, travel allowance, group insurance and more.


How it works

Your application

We are happy to get in touch with you! You can send your application by using the "Apply" button.

Carefully, we take a look at your application. Within 2 weeks you know if we invite you for an interview.

First contact
We call you to set up an interview. And since we’re already talking: feel free to ask any question you may have.

First date
In this first interview we’ll get to know each other. We want to find out more about you. Work experience is interesting, but we also want to find out more about you as a person. Together, we’ll find out if this job is a match made in heaven.

Your next interview
Before the next interview we will ask you to take an online assessment. We’ll also discuss the position and your team in depth.

Is this love?
2 interviews are usually enough to see if it’s a match. And if you agree… well, it’s the beautiful beginning of your career at bol.com :)