Senior Backend Software 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 TheFork **What you will do**: - The Core Marketplace team is part of Core and Commons tribe at TheFork which 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, availabilities, Gift Cards, payment management as well as partner integrations** (Google, TripAdvisor to name a few) - 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 **5 engineers** (Backend and full stack 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: - **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 are**: **You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications** - 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 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**: 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 deve