Senior Backend Engineer

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture At 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 world’s 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 team’s 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-end NodeJS & Typescript for backend services structured in a microservice-based architecture Json RPC for internal communications with services PHP / Symfony for a few legacy components that are being decommissioned Storage is mostly handled by PostgreSQL & ElasticSearch Domain events are propagated through RabbitMQ as an event bus Our websites and servers are monitored with Datadog for 24x7 operations and ease of troubleshooting We are 100% Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting As a senior backend engineer in the team, you are expected to contribute to the team’s roadmap Working 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 features Helping our QA team during testing and validation Collaborating transversally with other teams from all the tribes across the engineering department to build cross functional functionalities Producing relevant documentation for the team’s scope Continuously enhancing the team’s processes and KPIs Who You AreYou Must Meet These Critical QualificationsYou are a senior software engineer with relevant years of experience building backend services and applications You 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 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 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, BDD You are comfortable writing and speaking in English. You Can Impress With These Additions You have great communication skills including the ability to explain your work to both technical and non technical stakeholders You 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 queries You are comfortable working in a distributed remote team with engineers in various locations (but within the same timezone) What We Offer You