Tech Academy: Java Graduate program

In a nutshell

Learn while making an impact! The first 6 months of the role are structured as a dedicated learning and development program, offering a rare chance to step directly into a real production environment, contributing to systems that operate at scale while strengthening both your technical and behavioral skills. After this initial 6-month program, you’ll continue in your role at Picnic as a Java backend engineer, building on what you’ve learned and taking on increasing responsibility. The program is intended to set you up for success in your long-term role at Picnic. Through the Picnic Tech Academy, you’ll explore topics ranging from Java Clean Code to reactive programming and MongoDB, while also developing key capabilities like collaboration and a growth mindset. You’ll learn to balance project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, building the foundation for a successful engineering career.

Picnic has over 20 Java backend development teams, each highly involved with and essential to all parts of the company. From enabling a smooth shopping experience to ensuring we fulfill our customers’ orders efficiently in our warehouses, there’s a wide range of products to work on. Product teams are also supported by the work of our platform teams on key technologies and infrastructure.

_Also, we don’t hide what we do. Instead, we open-source with the community that helped us grow. Here’s proof: _http://picnic.tech

Tricks of the trade

• Growth: Level up your development and behavioral skills through our 6 months Tech Academy and with the guidance of your mentor while applying what you learn directly in your team!

• Contribution: Become a part of one of our product teams from day one and start contributing to Picnic from the get-go

• Ownership: Get to work on increasingly challenging tasks and projects, growing all the time, and working collaboratively with your colleagues

• **Our Tech: **Java 25 (Reactor and Spring 6), RabbitMQ and Kafka, Maven and Git, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault (Hungry for more? Check out https://stackshare.io/picnic-technologies ** **for an overview of our tech stack)

We’re looking for

• You have (or will soon have) a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

• Recent graduates and early-career professionals with up to 1 year of professional experience

• Willingness to learn technologies to create systems at scale

• Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required)

• You are available to start this position **full time **in January 2027!

Extra credit for:

• Experience with Java programming