Lead Engineer Team Consumer App
Datum: 9 jan. 2026
Plaats: Den Haag, ZH, NL, 2521 CA
Bedrijf: PostNL
Job title: Lead Engineer Consumer App
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: €5,200 to €7,559 gross per month based on 37 hours
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
Become Lead Engineer Consumer App and take technical ownership of our complex app. Drive innovation and strategic transformation!
Are you an experienced full-stack engineer with .NET, iOS and Android expertise? Take the lead on our Consumer App and shape its strategic evolution.
Why join PostNL as Lead Engineer Consumer App
Impactful work: You ensure millions of users enjoy a seamless Trusted Dutch branded app experience prioritizing reliability, customer satisfaction, and accessibility, including a unique selling point which is insights in mail delivery.
Challenge: Achieving robust, scalable, and secure integration between various internal and external systems
Great atmosphere: Collaborate with colleagues who embrace opportunities and help each other grow.
Flexibility: Work partly from home and partly in our modern office next to Holland Spoor station.
Responsibility: You set the technical delivery for our consumer App.
Development opportunities: Plenty of room for training and career growth.
Your role
As Lead Engineer Consumer App, you will take technical ownership of our most important app. You will drive its strategic evolution and transition from external partners to internal leadership. You will work with a modern tech stack running on AWS Serverless
You will lead key initiatives such as merging the Consumer and Business apps and integrating Conversational AI features. In addition, you will develop processes and guide a hybrid team of internal colleagues and offshore partners to enable product teams to take full end-to-end ownership of their features within three to four years.
Your colleagues
You will join the digital domain of our IT organisation, working closely with product owners, developers and testers. The team is hybrid, combining internal colleagues and offshore partners. Together, you will focus on innovation and quality, with strong collaboration at the core.
What we’ll deliver
A role full of innovation and work that you will see reflected across the Netherlands. At PostNL, your mindset meets our challenge. You can count on an attractive package of employment conditions. The top benefits for your role include:
Salary between €5,200 and €7,559 gross per month based on 37 hours per week. Working 32 hours is also possible!
Hybrid working and flexible hours. Work two or more days from home? Receive €45 net per month.
8% holiday allowance and 25 vacation days for full-time work.
Travel allowance for commuting: NS Business Card or kilometre reimbursement.
A solid pension scheme via the PostNL pension fund.
Engineering Laptop (Mac or Windows) and smartphone.
Training and development opportunities via the PostNL Academy.
Discounts on holidays, events and products.
What you bring to the job
You are an experienced tech lead who takes ownership and thinks strategically. You also bring:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree thinking level. A pre is a degree in Information Technology
Extensive experience with .NET, iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin/Java).
Proven AWS serverless expertise.
Experience managing teams and improving development processes.
Strong communication skills in English to bridge technology and business. Dutch is pré
The final letters...
Prefer to have a coffee first to learn more about the role or us? That’s possible! Call or email the recruiter and we’ll schedule an appointment.
During the application process, we conduct a background check. This includes a Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG), reference checks and possibly a customised screening.
Because we believe in equal opportunities, candidates complete an assessment designed to evaluate competencies and skills relevant to the role.
We search for new colleagues ourselves who want to help build the PostNL of the future. Applications from recruitment agencies will be returned.