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In a nutshell
Own an end to end project in a real production environment as an integral part of one of our teams. At Picnic your skills will be taken to the next level with the latest tech! And our diverse set of projects will keep you challenged and motivated. From optimizing large-scale vehicle routing with advanced solver technologies, to productionizing AI-driven quality gates in our release pipelines, you’ll work on problems that directly impact our operations. You might even find yourself building robust testing frameworks for automated warehouse systems, bridging the gap between software and real-world logistics.
We don’t hide what we do. Instead, we open-source with the community that helped us grow. Here’s proof: http://picnic.tech
And if we have sparked your curiosity, check out our Tech Blog to take a further look under the hood of Picnic tech: https://jobs.picnic.app/en/blogs
This is a 2-month full-time position. Please note that this is not a thesis internship and EU citizenship is required.
Tricks of the trade
- Drive: With a strong motivation to learn and improve, you’ll take ownership of a project while working closely with your colleagues to grow and develop your skills.
- Contribution: You’ll learn how to design, test, and improve key aspects of our operations, with plenty of mentorship along the way. You’ll also have the opportunity to take ownership of a project, bringing both creativity and analytical thinking to the table.
- Curiosity: You’re driven to explore and optimize systems, always eager to understand how each line of code contributes to the bigger picture and overall business goals.
- Our Tech: a project for every taste and every stack!
Backend: Java25, Python, Springboot, MongoDB
ML: Python, LLM APIs (Claude, GPT)
With a chance to get experience working with Solvers (such as Timefold), SQL, protocol buffers and other cutting edge tooling!
We’re looking for
- You just finished, or are about to finish your Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field
- You have EU nationality (note that a Working Visa or University Visa is not sufficient for this Summer Internship)
- A collaborative mindset, ready to engage with the team and seek out new opportunities for improvement.
- Motivated to challenge the status quo and drive innovative solutions to enhance efficiency.
- Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required)
Picnic Perks
✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner!
You will gain real-world experience as part of a top-notch tech team. You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Lunch & Learn sessions, and Tech Academy workshops.
🌞 Summer vibes, tech tribe!
Make this summer a season of growth and networking! Join a group of passionate learners for the opportunity to apply your skills through hands-on projects, then kick back with the tech team at our epic summer party - perfect for bonding and making memories.
💡 Make a difference
You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own project and create an impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, like board game evenings and after-work drinks!
🍎 You are what you eat
You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.
Ready to apply?
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Senior Software Engineer - Consumer Products
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In a nutshell
At Picnic, we’re redefining how people buy groceries by making shopping effortless, sustainable, and fun! Our Consumer domain is at the heart of this transformation, creating customer-facing features that delight millions of users across Europe.
From developing personalized shopping experiences, like our Meal Planner, to building engaging loyalty programs, we focus on delivering a high-quality, intuitive user experience by building scalable solutions with the latest tech. If you’re passionate about building impactful products used by millions daily, this is the place for you!
Tricks of the trade
- Ownership: Take ownership of projects from concept to production. Work collaboratively, grow alongside your team, and contribute to the team’s success.
- Impact: Develop solutions that make shopping smarter, faster, and more intuitive. Your code will power seamless, scalable, and personalized interactions for millions of users.
- Agility: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where you learn and use a wide variety of tools and platforms to build the best tech for our customers.
- Amplification: You’ll share knowledge, empower your colleagues and multiply your impact beyond what you could achieve on your own.
- Platform thinking: Build technology that empowers developers and business analysts alike to develop flexible features. (Check out our blog post!)
- Our Tech: You’ll work with Java and TypeScript on a daily basis, using frameworks like Spring (Spring with Spring Boot, Reactor, Immutables) and React. Supporting this core stack are GraalVM, Apache Calcite, Maven, Python 3.x, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Helm, Terraform, Vault, and Datadog.
We’re looking for
- You have a Master’s Degree (in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field) or equivalent experience.
- You have 5+ years of professional experience in Java.
- You have a product mindset and treat technology as a means to an end, owning and solving business problems by choosing the best-fitting technical solutions and tools for each challenge.
- You are fluent in working with AI and can effectively accelerate your output with orchestrated agentic workflows.
- Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required).
Picnic Perks
✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner!
You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.
💡 Make a difference
You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!
🍎 You are what you eat
You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.
🚴🏽 Stay healthy
Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!
🔋 Attractive package
We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries
🌍 Benefits for expats
It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
Product Manager - Consumer App
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In a nutshell
Are you ready to redefine daily life for millions? At Picnic, we're not just delivering groceries; we're building the future of commerce through groundbreaking tech and sustainable innovation. If you're a product visionary passionate about shaping hyper-personalized experiences that truly matter, then let's talk.
Tricks of the trade
- Uncover Truths: Dive deep into customer behavior and data to identify pivotal opportunities and forge a product roadmap that balances user needs with business goals.
- Design Futures: Partner with UX designers to map customer journeys and sculpt features that elevate every touchpoint: from intuitive shopping and flawless delivery to effortless aftercare.
- Empower & Scale: Cultivate a high-performing product team, fostering collaboration and excellence within a rapidly expanding, agile ecosystem.
Your superpowers
- Academic Firepower: Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field (e.g., Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering).
- Proven Impact: 2-5 years of experience in a fast-paced, product-led organization, ideally with a track record as a Product Analyst, Product Owner, or Product Manager.
- Analytical Maverick: Possess sharp analytical and conceptual thinking, always rooting decisions in customer understanding, rigorous data, and technical feasibility.
- Experience Obsessed: Deeply committed to shipping products that aren't just functional, but genuinely delightful and impactful.
- Collaboration Catalyst: An exceptional communicator and collaborator, adept at uniting diverse stakeholders around a shared vision.
*Please Note: This is not a one-time hire. We’re hiring for this role throughout the year as part of our ongoing growth and expansion. An EU working permit or citizenship is required.
Picnic Perks
🥗Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚲Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
🗺️Relocation
If you’re moving from another country to join Picnic we make it as smooth as possible for you. We’ll cover your flight costs for you and your partner and kids, your first month's rent and moving costs (up to €2000), and help you with the 30% tax ruling setup and application.
🍎Learning & development
You’ll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. We offer personal development through Lepaya courses, Academy trainings, and more. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.
⛳All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
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Senior Java Engineer - Supply Chain
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In a nutshell
Our Java teams in the Supply Chain make sure that our products travel from the suppliers, through the warehouses, in our electronic vehicles, and finally arrive at our customers’ houses with a smile. From automating our warehouses, to optimizing our routes, to making our drivers’ lives easier: there’s a wide range of products to work on. At Picnic your skills will be complemented with the latest tech and our diverse projects will keep you challenged and motivated. Through designing, developing, and testing new features, or improving the scalability and security of our platform: you’ll be managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, while finding yourself fully immersed in an engaging scale-up culture.
Tricks of the trade
- Ownership: Take ownership of projects from concept to delivery, aligning technical solutions with business goals
- Problem solving: You see a problem, you tackle it with technology - with your users always in mind
- Contribution: Design, test, evolve, and evaluate the systems that underpin our supply chain operations, offering a creative and analytical approach
- Impact: You will share your expertise on tech decisions within your product
- Our Tech: Java 21/25 (Spring 6 with Spring Boot 3.5, Reactor, Immutables, Maven), RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Git, Docker, AWS, Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Datadog, Python 3.x
We’re looking for
- You have a Master’s Degree (in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field) or equivalent experience
- You have a product mindset: you own and solve business problems through tech
- You have 5+ years of professional experience in programming and software development
- You have a profound understanding of back-end development, including Java, Spring MVC, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required)
- You're based in or happy to relocate to the Netherlands*
*We work from our office in Amsterdam. Being present makes a genuine difference to your team and the work. There's flexibility to work from home when needed, but if remote or hybrid-first is what you're after, this probably isn't the right fit.
Please send your CV in English for complete consideration.
Picnic Perks
✍🏼 Mastery is a journey!
You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.
💡 Make a difference
You will work on real-world problems, seeing the impact of your work every day in our warehouses and in our satisfied customers. Plus, our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings, to after-work drinks, to our company ski trip and more!
🍎 You are what you eat
You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.
🚴🏽 Stay healthy
Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!
🔋 Attractive package
We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries.
🌍 Benefits for expats
It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
Java Engineer - Supply Chain
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In a nutshell
Our Java teams in the Supply Chain make sure that our products travel from the suppliers, through the warehouses, in our electronic vehicles, and finally arrive at our customers’ houses with a smile. From automating our warehouses, to optimizing our routes, to making our drivers’ lives easier: there’s a wide range of products to work on. At Picnic your skills will be complemented with the latest tech and our diverse projects will keep you challenged and motivated. Through designing, developing, and testing new features, or improving the scalability and security of our platform: you’ll be managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, while finding yourself fully immersed in an engaging scale-up culture.
Tricks of the trade
- Ownership: Take ownership of projects from concept to delivery, aligning technical solutions with business goals
- Problem solving: You see a problem, you tackle it with technology - with your users always in mind
- Contribution: Design, test, evolve, and evaluate the systems that underpin our supply chain operations, offering a creative and analytical approach
- Our Tech: Java 21/25 (Spring 6 with Spring Boot 3.5, Reactor, Immutables, Maven), RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Git, Docker, AWS, Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Datadog, Python 3.x
We’re looking for
- You have a Master’s Degree (in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field) or equivalent experience.
- You have a product mindset: you own and solve business problems through tech
- You have 1-5 years of professional experience in programming and software development
- You have a profound understanding of back-end development, including Java, Spring MVC, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required)
- You're based in or happy to relocate to the Netherlands*
* We work from our office in Amsterdam. Being present makes a genuine difference to your team and the work. There's flexibility to work from home when needed, but if remote or hybrid-first is what you're after, this probably isn't the right fit.
Please send your CV in English for complete consideration.
Picnic Perks
✍🏼 Mastery is a journey!
You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.
💡 Make a difference
You will work on real-world problems, seeing the impact of your work every day in our warehouses and in our satisfied customers. Plus, our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings, to after-work drinks, to our company ski trip and more!
🍎 You are what you eat
You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.
🚴🏽 Stay healthy
Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!
🔋 Attractive package
We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries
🌍 Benefits for expats
It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
Software Engineer - Consumer Products
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In a nutshell
At Picnic, we’re redefining how people buy groceries by making shopping effortless, sustainable, and fun! Our Consumer domain is at the heart of this transformation, creating customer-facing features that delight millions of users across Europe.
From developing personalized shopping experiences, like our Meal Planner, to building engaging loyalty programs, we focus on delivering a high-quality, intuitive user experience by building scalable solutions with the latest tech. If you’re passionate about building impactful products used by millions daily, this is the place for you!
Tricks of the trade
- Ownership: Take ownership of projects from concept to production. Work collaboratively, grow alongside your team, and contribute to the team’s success.
- Impact: Develop solutions that make shopping smarter, faster, and more intuitive. Your code will power seamless, scalable, and personalized interactions for millions of users.
- Agility: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where you learn and use a wide variety of tools and platforms to build the best tech for our customers.
- Platform thinking: Build technology that empowers developers and business analysts alike to develop flexible features. (Check out our blog post!)
- Our Tech: You’ll work with Java and TypeScript on a daily basis, using frameworks like Spring (Spring with Spring Boot, Reactor, Immutables) and React. Supporting this core stack are GraalVM, Apache Calcite, Maven, Python 3.x, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Helm, Terraform, Vault, and Datadog.
We’re looking for
- You have a Master’s Degree (in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field) or equivalent experience.
- You have 2-5 years of professional experience in Java.
- You have a product mindset and treat technology as a means to an end, owning and solving business problems by choosing the best-fitting technical solutions and tools for each challenge.
- You have experience with AI tooling and are comfortable with agentic engineering.
- Your English skills are on point (no Dutch required).
Picnic Perks
✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner!
You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.
💡 Make a difference
You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!
🍎 You are what you eat
You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.
🚴🏽 Stay healthy
Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!
🔋 Attractive package
We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries
🌍 Benefits for expats
It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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In a nutshell
As a Machine Learning Engineer at Picnic, you will design and deploy intelligent systems to solve our company’s biggest challenges. Beyond building models, you will productionize them with strong monitoring and seamless integration into operational systems. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved and that solutions deliver real-world impact.
All using high quality data. Our data is registered, logged, and consistent, enabling you to focus on building and improving models rather than cleaning data. This role combines the skills of a consultant, software engineer, and applied mathematician.
Tricks of the trade
You will definitely:
- Identify and execute improvement possibilities together with other ML Engineers and (product) analysts
- Collaborate on your project from inception to production, to continuous improvement
- Develop tools and enhancements for our cloud-based Machine Learning platform
You could work on various projects and fields, such as:
- Demand forecasting: delivery, article, trip volumes, used Picnic-wide
- Fraud detection: helping us keep troublemakers out of our store
- Recommendation systems: generating useful in-app grocery suggestions
- Search and ranking: helping our customers find exactly what they need
- Predicting delivery drop-off times: making sure we’re on-time at every customer’s door
- Vision: ensuring quality control and smooth operations within our warehouses
Check out some of our previous machine learning projects here: https://blog.picnic.nl/tagged/machine-learning
We’re looking for
- Master’s degree or higher in AI, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in data science or applied machine learning
- Excellent communication skills, you can clearly explain complex ideas in non-technical terms and enjoy working closely with business stakeholders to solve problems together
- Experienced in designing, deploying, and maintaining production ML systems, with solid software engineering and ML principles
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Able to define the long-term vision and technical architecture for ML solutions within your domain
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI is a plus
Picnic Perks
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!
💡 Make a difference
You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🥗 Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚲 Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
🌎 Relocation
If you’re moving from another country to join Picnic we make it as smooth as possible for you. We’ll cover your flight costs for you and your partner and kids, your first month's rent and moving costs (up to €2000), and help you with the 30% tax ruling setup and application.
📆 All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
In a nutshell
As a Project Engineer in the Building Infrastructure team at Picnic, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and optimizing our supply chain infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for designing, sourcing, and implementing building related machinery across our Fulfillment Centers and logistics network. By deeply understanding operational challenges, you’ll develop innovative solutions, negotiate large-scale purchases, and ensure seamless execution. This role is perfect for someone who is analytical, technically skilled, and passionate about buildings and continuous improvement.
Tricks of the trade
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Develop cutting-edge solutions: Understand the core of what’s required. Cut out the unnecessary and keep the essentials.
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Ensure Picnic growth: Design, procure and deliver optimal solutions for our new sites
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Enhance operational performance: Take on projects to upgrade running operations and improve performance.
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Negotiate and procure strategically: Manage high-value purchases to optimize costs and ensure long-term operational success.
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with operations, procurement, and real estate teams to drive seamless implementation
We’re looking for
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Finished HBO or Master’s degree, preferably in a technical or engineering discipline
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0-3 years of experience in projector engineering management
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Fluency in English and preferably Dutch, French and/or German
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Independent, communicative, and confident personality
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You are very driven and always want to improve processes
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You are operational and have a hands-on mentality
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Willingness to travel to different locations across the Netherlands, Germany & France
Picnic Perks
🥗Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚵🏼Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
🌍Relocation
If you’re moving from another country to join Picnic we make it as smooth as possible for you. We’ll cover your flight costs for you and your partner and kids, your first month's rent and moving costs (up to €2000), and help you with the 30% tax ruling setup and application.
✍🏼Learning & development
You’ll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. We offer personal development through Lepaya courses, Academy trainings, and more. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.
All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
Tech Lead (Machine Learning)
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In a nutshell
Picnic is turning online grocery shopping from a digital catalogue into an intelligent, personal experience. The Consumer ML team is at the heart of that — building the systems behind personalised recommendations & search, promotional pricing, and fraud detection for millions of customers.
As Tech Lead, you’ll lead a team of ML Engineers through its next growth phase. You’ll develop the people, set direction across the team’s ML domains, and shape our customers’ experience with AI & ML.
Tricks of the trade
- Grow your team: coaching experienced engineers toward technical leadership and helping junior engineers build independence. Your success is measured by theirs.
- Shape how the team works: how we run experiments, evaluate models, and ship to production. You define the process, not every solution.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including senior leadership, across product, analytics, and business, to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Be a technical leader by challenging architectural decisions, asking the right questions, and leveraging connections between initiatives.
- Shape the vision and roadmap for ML to improve our customers’ experience together with the Product Owner, set and maintain high standards for execution.
- Foster a culture of innovation and contribute to the ML community - through conferences, meetups, and knolwedge exchanges.
- Our Tech: Python, SQL, dbt, PyTorch, MLflow, FastAPI, AWS, Kubernetes, Argo
We’re looking for
- You have a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a related field.
- You have at least 5 years of relevant technical experience, including building and shipping AI/ML product features, with a strong understanding of modern ML techniques — enough to challenge architecture and know what good looks like.
- You have at least 2 years of experience leading or managing a technical team, with a track record of growing engineers into stronger, more independent contributors.
- You shape how an ML team works — not just what it works on.
- You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, and you're comfortable representing your team externally.
- You have strong English skills (no Dutch required).
Picnic Perks
💡 Make a difference
You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact.
Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!
🍎 You are what you eat
You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.
🚴🏽 Stay healthy
Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials.
There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!
🔋 Attractive package
We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries.
🌍 Benefits for expats
It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic
Machine Learning Platform Engineer
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In a nutshell
You’ll work on building the tools and infrastructure to help our Machine Learning Engineers build and productionize robust machine learning models.
Working closely with ML Engineers, you’ll identify opportunities to improve the machine learning lifecycle at Picnic. From tools that improve model experimentation, to automations that simplify model deployment. You will collaborate with other platform teams at Picnic to make sure our tech stack remains aligned with the rest of the Tech team, while building and integrating the solutions that solve the problems unique to machine learning systems.
Check out some of our previous machine learning projects here: https://blog.picnic.nl/tagged/machine-learning
Tricks of the trade
Various MLOps-oriented projects to:
- Automate machine learning model retraining and deployment
- Set up infrastructure for model inference, supporting deployment strategies like A/B testing and shadow testing.
- Improve monitoring in order to exercise operational excellence for our machine learning models.
- Simplify and standardize usage of tools by developing and inner-sourcing Python packages
Your contributions to the platform will power:
- Recommendation systems: generating useful in-app grocery suggestions for our customers.
- LLM use cases: automate systems to categorize Customer Success tickets.
- Outlier detection: low-latency decision support systems to prevent fraud.
- Time-series forecasting: improving the operational efficiency throughout our supply chain, from our automated fulfilment center to our last mile delivery.
You will definitely:
- Work closely with ML Engineers to identify opportunities, define use cases, and scope out the requirements
- Own your own project from inception to production
- Experiment with and evaluate new technologies
- Develop tools and enhancements for our ML Platform
We’re looking for
- Master’s degree or higher in AI, Computer Science, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in productionizing machine learning models, preferably using Docker and Kubernetes
- Proven track record of scaling development and adoption of machine learning in an organization
- Strong Python skills
- ...and for bonus points: you have experience with Terraform and working with LLMs
Picnic Perks
✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner!
You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work
With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!
🥗 Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚲 Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
🌎 Relocation
If you’re moving from another country to join Picnic we make it as smooth as possible for you. We’ll cover your flight costs for you and your partner and kids, your first month's rent and moving costs (up to €2000), and help you with the 30% tax ruling setup and application.
📆 All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
Ready to apply?
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In a nutshell
As a Product Manager at Picnic, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, tackling complex challenges with fresh, groundbreaking solutions. This role is all about driving impact—you’ll analyze data, identify opportunities, develop product strategies that push boundaries and define the way we’re building our supply chain logic.
Tricks of the trade
- Improving the fully automated warehouse: going beyond the business case by designing better strategies and building robust systems (e.g. designing new picking strategies, improving the automated storage system)
- Innovating across borders: building a new fully automated warehouse in Oberhausen (DE-FCA), and working on projects such as the new pallet storage system and the new double zone pick loop
- Pushing towards new standards: renewing the inbound flows, enabling Last Mile 2.0, and improving stock accuracy to ensure Picnic Perfect Quality of Service
- Building sustainable solutions: launching new fruits and vegetables distribution centers with focus on even higher quality, to improve customer satisfaction
- Leading with ambition: Using your relentless determination and grit to take the driver's seat and redefine the puzzle behind a smooth grocery shopping experience
Your superpowers
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Econometrics, Mathematics, Physics or an equivalent quantitative study
- 2-5 years of work experience in a product-led company, ideally experienced with building logistics solutions
- Problem-solving mindset and passion for tackling complex challenges
- Strong communication skills which allow you to convert abstract plans into concrete actions for your team
*Please Note: This is not a one-time hire. We’re hiring for this role throughout the year as part of our ongoing growth and expansion. An EU working permit or citizenship is required.
Picnic Perks
🥗Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚲Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
🗺️Relocation
If you’re moving from another country to join Picnic we make it as smooth as possible for you. We’ll cover your flight costs for you and your partner and kids, your first month's rent and moving costs (up to €2000), and help you with the 30% tax ruling setup and application.
🍎Learning & development
You’ll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. We offer personal development through Lepaya courses, Academy trainings, and more. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.
⛳All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Picnic