# Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Digital Experiences
Join Albert Heijn's innovation-focused team to work on next-generation digital experiences, including Steijn, an AI-powered chatbot used by millions of customers.
## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Kotlin-based backend services, APIs, and integrations
- Work on systems behind real-time conversational experiences, including AI-powered chatbots
- Integrate AI and LLM capabilities into production systems
- Take ownership from design to deployment and ongoing operation
- Build reliable integrations with existing AH systems and ensure consistent data flows
- Collaborate with Product Owners, engineers, and stakeholders to turn ideas into working solutions
- Contribute to new initiatives, ranging from AI-powered experiences to traditional backend services
- Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable in a complex retail environment
## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer
- Strong experience with Kotlin or Java (willingness to work in Kotlin required)
- Hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience building and maintaining APIs, integrations, and backend services
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- DevOps mindset, comfortable with CI/CD, deployments, and owning services end to end
- Experience working in Agile product teams
- Strong analytical skills and ability to thrive in dynamic, fast-moving environments
- Comfortable using modern developer tooling such as GitHub Copilot
- Enthusiasm for AI and strong interest in applying AI technologies to real-world customer experiences
- Experience building AI-powered, LLM-based, or conversational applications highly valued
- Willingness to work with Python when needed, particularly for AI- and data-related use cases
## Desired Skills
- Familiarity with concepts such as RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, or agent-based systems
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into production systems
- Curiosity to explore new technologies, experiment, and continuously learn