Software Engineer (C# / Java)

Technology plays a crucial role in Vanderlande's continuous investment in innovative products and advanced technologies. As software increasingly becomes the backbone of our systems and solutions, we ensure that we invest in talented people who can create maximum value.

Your position

As the Lead Engineer for Load Forming Logic (LFL) development, you will play a central role in shaping and advancing one of Vanderlande's core optimization components. The LFL software calculates the optimal balance between store friendliness, stability, and pallet utilization. It determines pallet counts, stacking patterns, and the optimal sequence of items flowing to the palletizing station, balancing often conflicting constraints using sophisticated search and optimization algorithms.

In this position, you will lead the engineering activities for LFL, guiding the architectural direction, ensuring high-quality implementation, and driving continuous improvement across the product. You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and external customers to translate operational needs into robust technical solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and testing of the Load Forming Logic application.
• Drive architectural and technical decision-making for LFL development.
• Work closely with stakeholders and customers to gather requirements, define priorities, and align technical solutions with operational needs.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into efficient, maintainable, and scalable software designs.
• Identify and analyze risks, resolve technical challenges, and propose improvements to enhance performance and reliability.
• Decompose complex problems, address bottlenecks, and provide technical guidance to other engineers.
• Review code, ensure software quality, and support continuous integration and delivery processes.
• Contribute to support activities and provide expertise during deployment and operational phases.

• Bachelor (BSc), Master (MSc) or PhD degree in a relevant software or technical education like computer science/engineering, software engineering, embedded systems, industrial automation.
• Good knowledge of (optimization) algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with object-oriented programming in C# and Java.
• You have +/-5 years of relevant working experience
• Experienced in CICD concepts, devenv tooling and workflow integration (Change management, Build, Test, Release) is a plus.
• Background in managing development environments, services and tools (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, PowerShell, …) is a plus.

Personal Profile:

• Strong analytical skills
• Agile mindset/team player.
• Independent, proactive and committed worker with strong communicative skills.
• Not afraid to take responsibility in a dynamic working environment
• Drive to win, result and goal oriented attitude
• Fast learner
• Good communication skills. Has abilities to describe the problems in the structure way and ask good questions.
• Good command of English

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 4969 to € 5900 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.

On top of your fixed salary you'll receive the following secondary benefits:

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Vanderlande is the global leader for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. In this world of technology, we believe in people - especially those who are totally dedicated, customer-driven and keen to continue learning throughout their career. This is embraced by our Vanderlande Academy and International Talent Development programs, with over 800 courses conducted every year. The focus is on freedom while being trusted to deliver, and this is one of the reasons why we received the highest rating of three stars in the Best Employer survey (The Netherlands). If you're ambitious and take your long-term career seriously, then please contact us to explore this global opportunity to join a company at the top of its game. For more information or to apply for this challenging position, please visit careers.vanderlande.com. What we offer In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.