Senior Back End Engineer for the Search of the Future

This is what we offer you

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance

• 10% Employee Benefit Budget

• EUR 1,400 development budget per year

• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)

• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

View all our benefits.

Job Title

Job Description

Redefine how people find what matters

Every day, thousands of users rely on our search platform to quickly find the information they need across websites and mobile apps worldwide. Search isn’t just a feature anymore — it’s a core product.

We’re evolving search into a next-generation experience: combining traditional search with vector search, hybrid retrieval, and generative AI. From smarter results powered by Elasticsearch to LLM-driven summarization and metadata enrichment, you’ll help shape how users interact with information in a fast-changing landscape.

This is your chance to build technology that’s both highly visible and deeply impactful.

Where you’ll be working

You’ll join a multidisciplinary team of backend engineers, frontend developers, a Product Owner, and a Scrum Master. The team collaborates closely with multiple teams across the Area to deliver seamless digital experiences.

Our Area focuses on creating the best digital experience through:

• A strong and scalable content platform

• Clear and intuitive navigation

• Powerful, intelligent search capabilities

Your work will directly impact global platforms used daily by customers and internal users — at scale.

You and your job

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll design and build the services that power our search platform.
 

You’ll:

• Develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot

• Configure and Improve our Elastic platform integration

• Design and maintain RESTful APIs that power search experiences

• Work on CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and automation

• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders

• Ensure high-quality delivery through testing and monitoring

• Contribute to the evolution of search by integrating hybrid search, vector search, and GenAI capabilities

• Help ensure solutions meet compliance and data protection standards

You’ll be hands-on with both the technical foundation and the innovation layer of our platform.

Job responsibilities

Must-have skills and experience:

• 4+ years of experience in backend development

• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot

• Experience designing and building REST APIs

• Solid experience with Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines, Boards)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices

• Strong testing mindset with JUnit and Mockito

• Proficiency with Git

• Experience with search engines and modern search architectures

• Familiarity with vector search, LLMs, or generative AI concepts

• Understanding of software quality, performance, and scalability

Nice to haves

• Experience with Cloud Foundry

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch

• Experience working with Kafka

What we’re looking for in a new teammate

• A strong communicator who collaborates easily across teams

• Someone who takes ownership and responsibility for their work

• A proactive and curious mindset — always looking for better solutions

• Comfortable challenging ideas and driving improvements

• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments

• A structured problem-solver who thrives in complexity

• Someone who enjoys working in a large, interconnected organization

If you’re excited about building scalable backend systems and shaping the future of search with AI, we’d love to hear from you.

You & the application process

• Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl

• If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.

• Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at Rabobank rabobank.jobs/en/faq

• A reliability check is part of the procedure.

• We respect your privacy.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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