At Picnic, we’re revolutionizing the way people buy groceries with our innovative and sustainable app-only service. We do almost everything in-house, developing cutting-edge technologies and processes to ensure we continue to grow rapidly without missing a beat. If you’re a passionate Python developer we’re offering you the opportunity to join the diverse team at our Amsterdam HQ and make a real difference in our scaleup environment.

🥜 In a nutshell

Our developers are highly involved and essential to each part of our company. From route planning, scaling our customers’ analytics to handle enormous chunks of data, to calculating how many bananas we should have in our warehouse on a Thursday – our teams write, plan, and predict.

While Java is the predominant language in our infrastructure, our ecosystem is diversifying and many software projects are fully written in Python. As one of our Python developers, you grab ownership of projects, grow, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You design, implement, test, evolve, and evaluate the nuts and bolts of our operations while offering a creative and analytical approach. You feel at home writing software libraries and applications and display an intricate understanding of how each line of code fits into a business plan. 

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.

We don’t hide what we do. Instead, we open-source with the community that helped us grow, and talk about software in our engineering blog. Check for yourself, on https://picnic.tech and https://blog.picnic.nl.

🎯 What you’ll do

  • Design, develop, and test software for our platform
  • Create high-quality code that is scalable, reliable and reusable
  • Help our analysts with any engineering questions or challenges they may face
  • Develop new features and improve the scalability and security of our Python systems
  • Take ownership of projects and manage their entire life cycles.

💻 Technologies we use

  • Python 3.8/3.9
  • Many Python libraries across various domains
  • PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, RabbitMQ
  • AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Travis CI

Hungry for more? Check out https://stackshare.io/picnic-technologies for an overview of our tech stack.

⭐️ About you

  • You have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent, or relevant experience
  • You have outstanding Python skills (with at least 2 years of experience)
  • You have experience with Docker
  • You have a good understanding of relational databases and SQL
  • You know when to use NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ
  • You feel comfortable building microservices
  • You know your way around software versioning (git), test suites, technical documentation, and continuous integration and deployment
  • ...and you don't mind collecting bonus points with your cloud and Kubernetes skills
Technical Skills
Python
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Is a Remote Job?
Hybrid (Remote with required office time)
Employment Type
Full time

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