Senior Solution Software Engineer

Job characteristics
Location – The Hague + Hybrid
Hours – 37 hours per week
Salary – €4521– €7,448.06
Qualification level – Higher vocational degree / university degree
Level – Senior

Help optimise our integration platform and connect systems and teams at the heart of PostNL. As a Senior Integration Developer, you'll play a key role in optimising our integration platform. You'll be the link between systems and teams across PostNL.

Why join PostNL as a Senior Integration Developer
Visible work: You’ll ensure seamless system collaboration in one of the largest logistics chains in the Netherlands.
Challenge: You’ll improve and optimise a modern integration platform in a complex IT environment.
Innovation: You’ll work with tools like Apache Camel, AWS and Java in a cloud-native landscape.
Collaboration: You’ll be part of the Integration Center of Excellence – the expert team guiding integrations across PostNL.
Responsibility: You’ll advise teams and architects, helping them make better decisions about integrations and system connections.

Your role
As a Senior Integration Developer, you’ll help professionalise and optimise our integration landscape. Your focus will be on improving existing integrations, implementing standards and increasing the reliability and scalability of the platform. Apache Camel and AWS are central to this, but your expertise goes beyond that – you see the bigger picture and know how systems can communicate better.

You’ll advise teams on integration solutions, guide implementations and actively contribute to developing and improving guidelines and best practices. You’ll also work on monitoring, logging, security and performance improvements. You’ll be the go-to person for complex integration issues and share your knowledge with colleagues. Because our systems are business-critical, you’ll also take part in our on-call service.

Your colleagues
You’ll join the Center of Excellence Integration, part of Central Business & IT Services (CB&ITS). This expert team of around 15 specialists – including Integration Developers, Platform Engineers and Architects – is the knowledge hub for integration within PostNL. The team has an open culture focused on collaboration, knowledge sharing and joint innovation. Wednesdays and Thursdays are office days; the rest of the week you’ll work hybrid.

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 benefits of your position are:
Salary between €5,123.06 and €7,448.06 gross per month at 37 hours per week.
Hybrid working is encouraged and you’ll have flexible working hours. 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.
A good pension plan through the PostNL pension fund.
Laptop and smartphone.
Training opportunities for personal development through the PostNL Academy.
Discounts on holidays, events and products.
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What you bring to the job
You understand how crucial good integrations are for an organisation like ours. You communicate easily with colleagues, think ahead and have an eye for quality. You know how to explain technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

You also have the following qualities:

• You have a higher vocational or university degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• You have at least 5 years of experience with system integrations in enterprise environments.
• You have extensive experience with integration patterns and frameworks such as Apache Camel.
• You have extensive experience working on cloud platforms like AWS.
• You have extensive experience with programming languages Java and Python.
• You’re familiar with Spring Boot, messaging systems, Kubernetes and cloud platforms.
• You’re familiar with serverless solutions.
• You have experience with CI/CD, monitoring, logging and security.

The final letters...
Fancy coming in for a cup of coffee or tea first in order to find out more about the job or PostNL? You’re more than welcome! Call or email the recruiter and we’ll schedule an appointment right away.
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.
Because PostNL believes in equal opportunities, candidates take an assessment designed to evaluate their competences and skills relevant to the position.
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