Senior Backend Engineer

<p>Marley Spoon is committed to bringing delightful, market-fresh and easy cooking back to the people while building a sustainable supply chain for a waste-free world. Our renowned chefs create inspiring and mouth-watering recipes every week, our customers select what they would like to cook, and we deliver the recipes with all the ingredients they need. We’re a publicly listed company (ASX: MMM), operating across 3 continents and in 8 countries with over +1500 team members worldwide. We are using technology to re-invent the global food supply chain to reduce unethical food waste. In order to achieve this, we are solving challenging problems in taste profiling, behavior prediction and real-time logistics.</p> <p>Our 100+ digital team (engineering, product, UX), currently structured in 4 tribes, is responsible globally for all software our customers use as well as software supporting internal processes. You’ll join the Discovery Tribe which makes sure that the customers can dive deep into our product offering and discover recipes, additional food products, and subscription plans that exactly suit their needs.</p> <p>You will join the RAMEN (Recipe and Menu Management) engineering team. The RAMEN team is building an internal tool to support the whole culinary process at Marley Spoon. It’s a complex menu builder that automates recipe creation and helps the culinary team identify the perfect menu on a weekly basis. The tool is being used by our colleagues every day and is already instrumental in the operations of the company. At the same time, we have multiple ideas on how to extend it and our roadmap is full with features that will make the life of the culinary team easier.</p> <p>The RAMEN team is composed of backend engineers, full-stack engineers, frontend engineers, and has a dedicated engineering manager and a product manager. We’re searching for a person passionate about backend development who is willing to take over the technical leadership of our backend application. As our team is cross-functional you’ll also have the chance to dive into the frontend side of things if you wish, but this is not required.</p><p><strong>Tech Stack</strong></p><ul> <li>Ruby and Ruby on Rails</li> <li>PostgreSQL</li> <li>Docker and Kubernetes on AWS</li> <li>Kafka</li> <li>TypeScript and React on the frontend side</li> <li>opportunity to work with Elixir on other applications</li> </ul><p><strong>Your role</strong></p><ul> <li>Take ownership of product and tech initiatives as a tech lead</li> <li>Advocate for best practices that lead to readable and testable code</li> <li>Mentor more junior colleagues and help others succeed</li> <li>Perform code reviews to spread your knowledge and maintain quality of the codebase</li> <li>Collaborate with others on the team and suggest how we can work together better</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul> <li>You have several years of professional experience with backend development</li> <li>You have solid knowledge of Ruby</li> <li>You know how to efficiently store and query data from SQL databases</li> <li>You understand that communication is one of the most important skills for a developer</li> <li>You are fluent in English</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul> <li>An open, diverse culture with over 50 nationalities of friendly, fun-loving foodies</li> <li>A growing company offering plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth</li> <li>Flexible working hours; hybrid work policy (remote + office)</li> <li>Monthly learning days</li> <li>Extra annual leave days (total 22) and +2 for every year of tenure</li> <li>Friday drinks and plenty of fun team and company events</li> <li>A cozy office in the heart of Lisbon</li> <li>Private health insurance provided by Allianz</li> <li>Food allowance of 7.62 euros per worked day</li> <li>24/7 confidential employee assistance program (Lifeworks)</li> <li>Autonomy, Impact, Collaboration, Learning &amp; Growth</li> <p><em>“When you grow, we grow”.</em></p> <p>If you're not sure about applying you can also reach out directly to Adam (adam.niedzielski@marleyspoon.com) who is the hiring manager for this position.<br/></p> </ul>