Picnic

Technology

TechAcademy:JavaGraduateprogram

€38–48k ~AI est. Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Tech Academy: Java Graduate program at Picnic. Skills: Java backend development, Production environment, System scaling. Learn. making impact”

What You'll Achieve.

Make a visible impact

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Full-time start September 2026

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's or Master's Degree, 1 year professional experience, English skills on point, Available full time September 2026

Nice to Have

Familiarity with Spring, Familiarity with MongoDB, Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Relevant working experience/projects

What You'll Do.

Contribute to systems at scale

Develop technical skills

Develop behavioral skills

Balance project priorities

Contribute to Picnic teams

Work on challenging tasks

Work collaboratively with colleagues

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Platform teams; Cross-functional teams

Process & Methodology

Agile

Full Job Description

In a nutshell Learn while making an impact! This program offers 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. 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 R

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