Senior Backend Engineer Core Marketplace

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant CultureAt TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the worlds favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.We're part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse people-first culture where respect, ownership, growth and better together values thrive.If you're passionate about food technology and making a real impact your seat at the table is ready.Discover life at TheForkWhat you will doThe Core Marketplace team is part of Core and Commons tribe at TheFork whose mission is to provide transversal functional capabilities to be consumed by all tribes. Its mission is to build and maintain all the technical blocks necessary to provide customer facing functionalities aimed at our B2C and B2B customers.The teams scope includes bookings, offers and availability.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 testing documentation & good practices.The Core Marketplace team is composed of 4 engineers mostly senior profiles. The team is distributed across different locations (France, Italy and with contractors in Romania as well)The technical stack used by the team:React & GraphQL for web front-endNodeJS & Typescript for backend services structured in a microservice-based architectureJson RPC for internal communications with servicesPHP / Symfony for a few legacy components that are being decommissionedStorage is mostly handled by PostgreSQL & ElasticSearchDomain events are propagated through RabbitMQ as an event busOur websites and servers are monitored with Datadog for 24x7 operations and ease of troubleshootingWe are 100% Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hostingAs a senior backend engineer in the team you are expected to contribute to the teams roadmapWorking closely with our product manager on the functional and technical discovery of new features (understanding requirements defining technical analysis and scoping the technical tasks)Working closely with your fellow senior engineers on the development and delivery of these featuresHelping our QA team during testing and validationCollaborating transversally with other teams from all the tribes across the engineering department to build cross functional functionalitiesProducing relevant documentation for the teams scopeContinuously enhancing the teams processes and KPIsWho you are :You Must Meet These Critical QualificationsYou are a senior software engineer with relevant years of experience building backend services and applicationsYou have a solid technical background in web technologies (6-10 years)You are rigorous, dynamic & curious equipped with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allow you to adapt to a changing environmentYou 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 phase 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 and coding good practices such as DDD TDD BDDYou are comfortable writing and speaking in English.You Can Impress With These AdditionsYou have great communication skills including the ability to explain your work to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersYou have a basic knowledge of GraphQL and PHP / Symphony (that could be useful in this position)You have a good understanding of SQL databases and SQL queriesYou are comfortable working in a distributed remote team with engineers in various locations (but within the same timezone)What we offer youAn awesome teamA permanent contractFlexible working environment (2 days home office per week non negotiable up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)Competitive fixed salary and bonusLunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes we like to try our best restaurants)International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across EuropeHighly inclusive working environmentLifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel, etc.Continuous learning and development programsFree access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journeyDedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)Health insurance covered by the companyFinancial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships or marriageTransport allowanceLife & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employeeAmazing offices with dining coffee points and leisure areaTeam building eventsWe believe that we are better together and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone – regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status or any characteristic protected under applicable law – has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application interview or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability please direct your inquiries to Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.Required ExperienceSenior ICKey SkillsBusiness Intelligence, Bidding, Accounts Assistant Credit Control, Account Development, Content Development, Lab TestingEmployment TypeFull-TimeExperienceyearsVacancy1#J-18808-Ljbffr