Senior Backend Engineer – TheFork

Welcome to our fabulous world. We are TheFork. Our mission is to bring happiness through amazing dining experiences, thanks to our 3 main products :

TheFork App : the restaurant discovery and booking app for every occasion

TheFork Manager : the tool to digitize restaurant operations and be in full control of your business

TheFork Pay & gift cards : the new and amazing dining payment experience

Creator of a unique model that disrupted the restaurant industry 15 years ago, we are now the leading dining platform across Europe and Australia. We are experiencing an exciting period of growth, and we need the greatest folks onboard. Together, we will make our wildest dreams come true! We strongly believe that our mission can only be achieved if we also bring happiness to our working environment. We do this by providing a flexible, multicultural and positive environment where each individual has the space to grow.

We nurture this happy culture through our core values: We are better together – We act like an owner – We genuinely care for our users and customers – We believe in transparency – We never stop learning – Speed wins

Oh! And we are also part of the big Tripadvisor family

With love,

Your future buddies, the Forkies.

TheFork is looking for a Software Engineering

Platform Domain

• Platform domain is one of the 4 product & engineering domains which compose TheFork. The others domains are Restaurant Xp and Diners Xp, Internal Users Xp.
• Platform domain is composed of QA, DevOps, SecOps, Architects, DevXp, Journey Enablers, and Core Market Place
• Platform domain’s main responsibility is to
  1. empower engineers to confidently deliver solutions with quality, performance, and scalability.
  2. support the technical platform and its scalability
  3. Provide shared components and core capabilities

Core Market Place

We are building a brand new team to provide shared core business functional capabilities to be consumed by all tribes. This is including the core of our booking system: Reservations, Offers, Availabilities, Restaurant content, and even the developer portal to facilitate external connections

The team is not directly in charge of implementing the new features for the end user. Instead, in addition to its own projects, the team will support the “customer-facing” teams by providing new capabilities in the core components if something is missing, but also documentation & good practices.

What technologies are we using?

• React & GraphQL for web front-end
• NodeJS & Typescript (+ PHP / Symfony for a few legacy components) for back-end building a horizontally scalable microservice-based architecture to serve customers in 13 countries.
• Storage is mostly handled by PostgreSQL & ElasticSearch
• Domain events are propagated through RabbitMQ as an event bus
• Our websites and servers are monitored with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK for 24×7 operations and ease of troubleshooting
• We are 100% Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting

Who you are:

• You have a solid technical background in web technologies (at least 8-10 years)
• You are rigorous, dynamic & curious, equipped with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allow you to adapt to a changing environment
• You have experience building software with a problem-solving approach leveraging customer inputs in an iterative manner (“Product Discovery”)
• You understand writing code is not your only job, you are also able to challenge product and stakeholder decisions, you need to “think first” with some analysis pages, after the release, you are monitoring, writing documentation, and communicating about what is now available.
• You have experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications
• You are comfortable writing and speaking in English

What we offer you:

An awesome team (not everybody like our jokes, but we try our best)

A Permanent contract (that can be useful in life)

Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week)

Competitive fixed salary, bonus and equity (yes, equity!)

Lunch vouchers

International teams – More than 30 nationalities and 16 offices worldwide

Highly inclusive working environment

Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse physical, leisure activities, family support, travel etc

Continuous learning and development programs (with full access to LinkedIn Learning!)

Free access to the Calm app

Health insurance fully covered by the company

Life Insurance and Disability at no cost to the employee

Attractive pension plans

Amazing offices with dining, coffee point on each floor, and leisure area

Team building events (we love karaoke. A lot. A lot.)

We believe that we are better together, and at TheFork we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspective and experiences, so we can collectively keep disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

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