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 whose 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 and availability.
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
4 engineers
, mostly
senior profiles
.
The team is distributed across different locations (France, Italy and 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 are a
senior 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 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 have experience with
architectural patterns
of large-scale applications and coding good practices such as
DDD
,
TDD
,
BDD
You are comfortable
writing and speaking in English.
You Can Impress With These Additions (Nice to have)
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 time zone)
What we offer you:
A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)
??Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week
non negotiable
+ up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)
Competitive fixed salary and premio
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
Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area
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.
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