Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

We are Flink - your online supermarket revolutionising the way you do your grocery shopping. With a wide selection of over 2,400 high-quality products, we aim to deliver to your door in minutes. We put our customers first and ensure all products delivered are fresh and nutritious. Additionally, we can customise our national assortment to be able to offer you unique local products in every city. Our delivery hubs are located in densely populated inner-city locations and we strive to be sustainable by delivering on electric bikes and using packaging that can be recycled.

Founded by experienced e-commerce professionals and seasoned entrepreneurs with exceptional track records, and backed by some of the most renowned Global investors, we are growing rapidly and have a great hunger to continuously challenge ourselves. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and equal opportunities employer with a diverse and multicultural team.

If you want to be part of this exciting journeyread on

**Job Description**:
In your role as a Senior Software Engineer (M/F/d), you will play a key role in building the back end of our groundbreaking quick commerce platform. You will find yourself in a modern software engineering environment, working in a cross-functional agile team, using microservices architecture built in Typescript hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

You will be working on our business-critical warehouse management system, which will be used daily by over 230 warehouses across 4 countries With fast build times and no legacy code Get ready to be immersed in the fast-paced environment of quick commerce, collaborating with various Flink stakeholders you will have a direct impact on our success.
- Take a leadership role in helping the team with feature development and maintenance across Flink’s arsenal of backend services/microservices.
- Taking part in the discussion and planning of new features.
- Mentorship of our junior engineers.
- Closely collaborate with other teams to deliver value to the end user.
- Drive the backend chapter towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies.
- Contribute to scaling up the backend team and bringing great talents onboard by conducting interviews and code pairing sessions.
- We have you build it, you own it and you monitor it mentality here at Flink. As a Senior Software engineer, you will ship your code using Kubernetes and monitor using DataDog.
- Our warehouse management system will be built using TypeScript, NestJS, React.JS and Node.js, in a microservice architecture

**Qualifications**:
- 5 years of commercial experience as a Fullstack Software Engineer with expertise in Typescript and Node.js and Frontend Frameworks such as React.js or Vue.js.
- Previous experience in mentoring junior engineers.
- Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices.
- Familiar with common monitoring / alerting/logging tools such as - Stackdriver, Datadog, NewRelic, Prometheus, ELK).
- Experienced with SQL databases (NoSQL is nice to have).
- Experience using cloud provider platforms like GCP or AWS, and deploying distributed services to Kubernetes. (Terraform knowledge is nice to have).
- Rigor in high code quality, unit testing and integration testing.
- Open-minded personality, comfortable working in a collaborative Agile environment.
- Fluent English communication skills.

Additional Information
- A cool discount off your personal Flink orders, be the first to test out new products
- An ultra-fast learning curve and real prospects for development
- Evolve on very high-impact missions, within dynamic and caring teams
- The opportunity to complete your network quickly by meeting your collaborators during informal events
- Coverage of the transport ticket and the Alan mutual insurance up to 50%
- New premises in the heart of Paris, a stone's throw from Bonne Nouvelle station
- It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion._