Senior Backend Software Engineer

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide transversal functional capabilities to be consumed by all tribes.
• Build and maintain all the technical blocks necessary to provide customer facing functionalities aimed at B2C and B2B customers.
• Support customer-facing teams by providing new capabilities in core components, testing, documentation & good practices.
• Collaborate with product manager on functional and technical discovery of new features.
• Work closely with fellow senior engineers on the development and delivery of features.
• Help QA team during testing and validation.
• Collaborate transversally with other teams to build cross functional functionalities.
• Produce relevant documentation for the team's scope.
• Continuously enhance the team's processes and KPIs.

Requirements

• Senior software engineer with 6-10 years of experience building backend services and applications.
• Solid technical background in web technologies.
• Rigor, dynamism, curiosity, and an agile mindset.
• Experience with problem-solving approach leveraging customer inputs in an iterative manner.
• Ability to challenge product and stakeholder decisions.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications and coding good practices such as DDD, TDD, BDD.
• Comfortable writing and speaking in English.

Nice-to-haves

• Great communication skills to explain work to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Basic knowledge of GraphQL and PHP/Symphony.
• Good understanding of SQL databases and SQL queries.
• Comfortable working in a distributed remote team.

Benefits

• Permanent contract.
• Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during summer and December).
• Competitive fixed salary and bonus.
• Lunch vouchers for each working day.
• International teams and a multicultural environment.
• Highly inclusive working environment.
• Lifestyle benefits for physical and leisure activities, family support, travel, etc.
• Continuous learning and development programs.
• Free access to the Calm app for mental health support.
• 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.
• Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Amazing offices with dining, coffee points, and leisure area.
• Team building events.