Software Engineer, Picnic Technologies
Python
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Supermarket on wheels
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Supermarket on wheels
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Building the modern milkman - personal service and fresh products in a modern, sustainable way.
Role
Who you are
- 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 Python-focused professional 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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 culture
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Picnic is one of Europe's largest online supermarkets, quickly growing into a household name with its simple, yet innovative app and green business model. Thanks to its ‘own the supply chain’ model and daily delivery routes (as opposed to on-demand delivery), the company is able to run a low-cost business targeted at the mass market, rather than premium buyers.
One of the major factors in the company’s rampant growth since 2015 is its capacity for free delivery, enabled by these daily delivery routes. The company's fleet has grown from 4 vans to more than 1,000 electric vehicles, cutting down on carbon emissions as it serves its hundreds of thousands of users.
The company's impressive funding - which has been heavily backed by the likes of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the sum of 1.4 billion euros in funding - has enabled Picnic to expand beyond The Netherlands into Germany, France, and further afield. Picnic is well set to see continued growth and expansion as it further disrupts the grocery delivery market.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$385.3m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$651.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Lunch & Learn sessions, soft-skill training, weekly free professional language courses, and the Picnic Tech Academy
- At Picnic you get the freedom to manage and implement your own projects in a scale-up culture
- Freshly prepared and healthy lunch every day, as well as snacks, fruit and drinks
- Access to Openup and Lepaya trainings
- Pension Plan
- Flexible/Hybrid Work Model
- 25 Days Vacation
Company values
- Innovation On All Fronts - From distribution model to warehouse system: we improve something new every day. For our customers and for ourselves
- We Develop In-House - We’re true DIYers. Our own products are distributed through our own warehouses that run on our own software
- Data At The Core Of Our Business - With us, being “data-driven” is more than just a buzzword. Data lives in everything we do
Founders
Daniel Gebler
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Researcher at VU University Amsterdam, and was the Director of R&D at Fredhopper.
Frederik Nieuwenhuys
(Co-Founder & Groenteboer)Co-founder and COO of merchandising software Fredhopper, and former Principal at OC&C Strategy Consultants.
Michiel Muller
(Co-Founder)Supervisory board member of FD Mediagroep, investment committee member of InnovationQuater, and former chairman of Erasmus Trustfund.
Joris Beckers
(Co-Founder)Former brand manager at Proctor & Gamble, and co-founder of merchandising software Fredhopper.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Picnic Technologies
- At Picnic everyone has equal opportunities. We base all our decisions in the application process on qualifications and merit. Applicants will be independently assessed regardless of age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color , marital status, religion, physical or mental disabilities, or other factors protected by law. We do our best every day to create a safe, inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves
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