Vacancy: Lead Software Engineer – Consumer Data Platform
Location: The Hague + hybrid
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: €4,521.29 – €7,448.06 (scale 11–12)
Level: Senior
As a Lead Software Engineer (or Tech Lead), you’ll help build our serverless data platform in AWS. You’ll make a real impact on millions of customer interactions and guide your team to the next level. As a Lead Software Engineer at PostNL, you’ll build an innovative serverless data platform. Expect challenge, flexibility, and growth opportunities!
Why you’ll choose us as Lead Software Engineer:
Visible impact: You help digitalize the largest supply chain in the Netherlands. Your work is literally visible in every street.
Challenge: You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies like AWS Lambda, Python, and event-driven architecture. You’ll connect tech and strategy in a dynamic environment.
Great atmosphere: Join a close-knit team where feedback, humor, and shared responsibility are second nature.
Freedom: Work hybrid and plan your time flexibly.
Growth: Keep developing yourself – technically, personally, and strategically – through our internal learning platforms.
This is your role:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Consumer Data Platform team, you’ll be working at the heart of customer interaction. You help define the architecture of our AWS-based serverless data platform. You design and build scalable, cloud-native solutions like ETL pipelines, APIs, and event-driven data flows.
You’re also a mentor and coach to your fellow engineers. You guide them on technical decisions, CI/CD processes, and the continuous improvement of our delivery pipelines. You’ll collaborate closely with other teams in the Consumer IT landscape and ensure our platform aligns with strategic business goals.
Your colleagues:
You’ll be part of the Consumer Data Platform team within the Consumer Engineering department. The team consists of eight colleagues: a platform owner, Scrum Master, tester, and several data engineers. There’s an open culture where sharing knowledge and learning from each other is key. You’ll work together to continuously improve the platform, guided by a serverless-first mindset.
What we bring
A role full of innovation and work that’s visible in every street in the Netherlands. We want to become the leading logistics e-commerce platform of the future – delivering special moments faster, smarter, and better. Your mindset and our challenge – that’s what we bring together. And you can count on a strong package of employment conditions.
Top benefits of this role:
- Salary between €4,521.29 and €7,448.06 gross per month (scale 11–12) based on 37 hours per week.
- Hybrid work and flexible hours. Work two or more days from home? You’ll receive a €45 net monthly allowance.
- 8% holiday allowance and 25 vacation days (full-time contract).
- Commuting allowance.
- A solid pension plan via the PostNL pension fund.
- Laptop and phone.
- Personal development and training opportunities via Mijn Leerplein.
- Discounts on holidays, events, and products.
This is what you bring:
You’re a tech-savvy leader with vision. You combine deep technical knowledge with leadership and know how to guide a team to the next level – both technically and personally.
You also recognize yourself in the following:
- You have experience designing cloud-native ETL solutions using Python and SQL.
- You are familiar with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
- You know how to work with event-driven architecture and microservices.
- You have experience mentoring and coaching technical teams.
Want to know more?
Get in contact with Lee Verschuren via MS Teams!
