Backend Software Engineer

Backend engineer core marketplace

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 worlds favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

Were 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 youre passionate about food technology and making a real impact your seat at the table is ready.

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What you will do:

• The Core Marketplace team sits at the heart of the Core and Commons tribe at TheFork. Our goal is to provide transversal functional capabilities to be consumed by all tribes.
• The mission is to build and maintain all the technical building blocks required to deliver customer facing functionalities aimed at our B2C and B2B customers.
• The teams scope includes bookings offers availabilities & tag management
• The team is responsible for building the marketplace strategy and ensuring the technical excellence of the core components in other words:
• Designing components that are up to date with the technical standards
• Building maintainable and evolutive core components
• Ensuring smooth integration with customer facing capabilities
• Delivering the necessary tools to the marketplace (dev portals documentation guidelines test utilities )
• Providing the technical KPIs to monitor the components execution health
• 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 when needed.
• The Core Marketplace team is already composed of 3 engineers (Backend developers) mostly senior profiles. The team is distributed across different locations (France Italy Spain with contractors in Romania as well)

• The technical stack used by the team:
• GraphQL for front-end APIs
• 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 use Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting

• As a backend engineer in the team you are expected to contribute to the teams roadmap & delivery
• Working closely with our product manager tribe architect & staff engineer 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 processes in the teams scope
• Continuously improving the teams processes and KPIs

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications

• You are an experienced software engineer with several years of experience building backend services and applications
• You have a solid technical background in web technologies (3-5 years)
• You have an appetite for technical challenges and a first experience with distributed architectural patterns in a microservice environment
• You are rigorous dynamic & curious 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 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)

Interview process:

• Hiring manager screening Interview
• Engineering Manager Fit Interview
• Live peer coding interview (with future colleagues)
• Head of Engineering / Director Fit interview

What we offer you:

An awesome team

A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)

Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

Competitive fixed salary and bonus

Lunch 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 Europe

Highly inclusive working environment

Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities family support travel etc

Continuous learning and development programs

Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

Health insurance covered by the company

Financial support for birth adoption civil partnerships or marriage

Transport allowance

Health insurance fully covered by the company

Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

Amazing offices with dining coffee points and leisure area

Team building events

We 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.