Android Engineer

Welcome to TheFork We're on a mission to bring people together, feed the human spirit, and champion restaurant culture because we strongly believe the best things in life happen around the table, and we want you to experience those unforgettable moments.

Founded in 2007 and present in over 10 countries, we are the leading restaurant booking platform across Europe and offer the broadest community of diners access to thousands of incredible restaurants. How do we make this happen? Through our exceptional lineup of products:

TheFork App: our free restaurant discovery & booking app that helps you find your next table with ease.

TheFork Manager: our innovative software tool that digitizes restaurant operations and helps restaurateurs manage their bookings and increase their revenue.

TheFork PAY and TheFork Gift Card: quick and easy ways to pay directly from the TheFork app, making the payment process a piece of cake.

We have offices all over Europe, boasting a fully international team from all over the world. We are all foodies at heart and work together in a flexible, multicultural, and positive environment that provides everyone with space to grow, both professionally and personally.

The Team

You will join the Diner Experience Tribe into the Restaurant Discovery Teams (with Native Apps / Web / Backend devs, Product manager, Engineering Manager, Designer & QA). Our teams are focusing on the homepage and the search experiences with the goal of making Restaurant Discovery easy whatever the diner intent. Partnering closely with Data and CRM teams, you will be working on exciting projects and will collaborate with your mates on every steps : discovery, shaping, delivery, monitoring. You will also join our Mobile community (~10 developers by platform), you will contribute to the architecture, the best practices and daily life of other devs (pair programming, PR review, etc).

What you will do:

• Writing clean, concise code in Kotlin
• Working with other engineers through discussions, code review, guilds and pair programming
• Collaborating with designers, product managers, QA and other engineers to iterate on new features
• Ensure the quality of the app: writing unit and integrated tests, improving the application architecture

Who you are:

• 3+ years of experience working on Android development especially using Kotlin
• Familiar with Clean Architecture / SOLID principles.
• Able to think of the customer and the business in order to solve problems and get stuff done.
• You are enthusiastic, proactive, and stimulated by teamwork
• You are willing to engage in a long term, non-exclusive relationship with a codebase
• You are comfortable writing and speaking in English
• You are used to write Unit tests, integration tests.
• One way or another, you're curious about food

It could be very nice if

• You are able to manage complexity in a small to mid-size project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs.
• You are able to make independent decisions based on product requirements.
• You have experience using Jetpack Compose, GraphQL APIs, RxJava, or Dagger2
• You have experience in working with remote teams.

Our Technical Stack

About our Android App :

• Kotlin (95%), MVVM, Jetpack Compose
• Github Actions, JUnit5 / Mockito / AssertJ
• Compatibility up to Android 6 Marshmallow
• Crash Free : 99,9%
• 4,7 Stars on GooglePlay - More than 5M currently installed app.
• Our back-end technical stack relies mainly on NodeJS
• We use relational databases (PostgreSQL) & memcache
• We monitor applications through ELK, prometheus & grafana, new relic & sentry
• Kubernetes and AWS for orchestration and hosting,
• Micro-services oriented architecture

The position is based in Turin.

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 available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)

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

Free access to the Calm app

???? Life Insurance and Disability at no cost to the employee

Welfare allowance school costs, elderly care, babysitting costs, transportation, travel leisure

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

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.