Use the latest AWS Serverless technology with C# to optimise our Platform Logistical Information for reliable and up-to-date logistical information on key customer channels. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate on a mission-critical application that collects, combines and enriches logistics information. Using the latest AWS Serverless technology and C#, you will ensure that our systems are always reliable and available.

Why join PostNL as a Senior Software Engineer

Visible work: You enable the digitisation of the largest supply chain in the Netherlands. Your work on the Logistical Information Platform ensures that the correct information such as expected arrival time & day or PostNL locations are available to enrich the check-out process of the webshops of PostNL customers.

Challenge: Work on our Logistical Information Platform within a cloud-native environment.You will ensure that our systems are available and performing optimally 24/7, to meet the performance requirements to deliver a good customer experience.

Good atmosphere: you’ll be working with co-workers who are eager to seize opportunities and help each other move forward.

Freedom: you'll work from home and at a flex spot in our bustling, state-of-the-art office in the historic Stationspostgebouw (next to Holland Spoor station).

Responsibility: you’ll have a big say in your work and working hours.

Development opportunities: you’ll have plenty of opportunities to take courses and grow into other positions or departments.

Your role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Platform Logistical Information, you will play a crucial role in the design and development of our platform. You will work in a DevOps Scrum team of colleagues on an AWS Serverless infrastructure with C# and services such as DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Lambda and API Gateways. The platform focusses on an event-driven architecture to ensure the latest available data to its users.

The platform is responsible for collecting, enriching and providing logistics information to both internal and external stakeholders so that they can make choices based on this data. As a developer, you are constantly looking to solve complex issues simply. Your efforts will contribute to our mission to remain the Netherlands' favourite delivery company.

Your colleagues

The Platform Logistical Information team works in a DevOps style and consists of a platform owner, scrum master and four developers. This team works solidly, gives and receives feedback and thinks through problems and solutions carefully. Together, we build PostNL-wide IT best-practices and innovations within the IT organisation.

What we’ll deliver

An innovative position and work that affects literally every street in the country. PostNL wants to be the logistics e-commerce platform of the future, delivering special moments faster, smarter and better. With your mindset, you can help PostNL face its challenges head on. You can count on excellent benefits in the process. The top benefits of your position are:

• Salary between €4.453 and €7.338 gross per month (scale 11/12) at 37hours per week. That translates to an annual salary of €91,393, including vacation pay.
• Hybrid working is encouraged and you’ll have flexible working hours. After all, your work-life balance matters to us and this team works 1 to 2 days in the office. Employees who work from home more than two days a week get an allowance of €45 net per month.
• 8% vacation pay and 25 vacation days on a full-time contract
• Travel allowance for commuting from 6 km each way up to a maximum of 70 km each way.
• An NS Business Card for business travel and commuting.
• A good pension plan through the PostNL pension fund.
• Engineering Laptop (Mac or Windows) and a phone.
• Training opportunities for personal development through Mijn Leerplein.
• Discounts on holidays, events and products.

What you bring to the job

You are passionate about technology and want to continue programming in C# with AWS serverless within a CI/CD and microservices architecture. In your role as Senior Software Engineer, you enjoy working collaboratively within your team and with stakeholders outside. You want to take on the challenge of further developing the Logistical Information Platform in a robust way.

Furthermore, you recognise yourself in:

• Designing cloud-native microservices architecture and integrating adjacent application domains.
• Maximum utilisation of AWS (Serverless) building blocks.
• Experience in a similar environment within a mission critical IT/tech environment.
• Experience with C#, AWS Cloud, and other relevant technologies.
• Experience with CDK and pipeline engineering.

The final letters...

• We do a background check on all applicants. As part of the check, we ask that applicants submit a certificate of good conduct. We also check references and possibly conduct a special investigation.
• As part of the recruitment process, candidates undergo an assessment designed to evaluate their competencies and skills relevant to the position.
• We recruit our own co-workers as we try to build the PostNL of the future. Post from recruitment agencies will be returned to sender!