Backend Engineer — IAM Platform Transformation (Kotlin, Kafka, DevOps)

Interim contract | Hybrid (Netherlands, office in the Amsterdam metropolitan area) | Start 1 July 2026, initial term to end of 2026 with possible extension

Our client is a leading European food retailer running one of the most ambitious Identity & Access Management transformations in the sector. Across multiple operating companies and enterprise platforms, they are modernising authentication, authorisation, privileged access, identity governance, and application onboarding on cloud-first, security-by-design foundations. This role sits inside the central IAM engineering team enabling secure, compliant, and highly automated identity services for tens of thousands of colleagues, partners, and applications across Europe.

You join a multidisciplinary engineering team building the platform capabilities that underpin the entire programme. You will work at the intersection of engineering, cyberse...