Senior Backend Engineer Journey EnablersJoin 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 Do The Journey Enablers team sits at the heart of the Core and Commons goal is to build transversal non-functional capabilities that are consumed by all tribes. The team’s scope includes Authentication, Translation management, Transactional communications (SMS, Emails & Push notifications), Geo referential system and more The team is responsible for building the enablers 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 scalable core components Building and maintaining third party integrations with multiple providers (Twilio, Phrase, Braze to name a few) Ensuring smooth integration with customer facing capabilities Delivering the necessary tools to the feature teams using our components (dev portals, documentation, guidelines, test utils…) 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 Journey Enablers team is already composed of 3 engineers (Backend developers), mostly senior profiles. The team is distributed across different locations (France, with contractors in Portugal) 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 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 & 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 Taking technical leadership and ownership of end to end projects in the team’s scope Becoming a technical referee on the team’s scope and ensure the technical excellence of the team’s delivery Collaborating transversally with other teams from all the tribes across the engineering department to ensure cross functional alignment Producing relevant documentation for processes in the team’s scope Continuously improving the team’s processes and KPIs Who You AreYou Must Meet These Critical QualificationsYou are an experienced Backend 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 have a proven track record taking on big technical challenges & demonstrated experience on distributed architectural patterns in the context of large scale applications You are a role model when it comes to taking technical leadership and ownership and centering teams around technical excellence 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 have great communication skills including the ability to explain your work to both technical and non technical stakeholders (writing and speaking in English). You Can Impress With These AdditionsYou have a good understanding of SQL databases and SQL queries You have kno