Senior Backend Engineer

<p><span>At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.</span></p> <p><span>40% of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste. </span></p> <p><span>We’re more than an app: we are a certified BCorp with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Tech offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.</span></p> <p><span>We’re growing fast: Our community of 117 million registered users and 244,000 active partners across 19 countries, have together already prevented 439+million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 1.186.000 tonnes of CO2e!</span></p> <p><span><strong>The Roles</strong></span></p> <p><span>We are looking to recruit <strong>Senior Backend Software Engineers</strong>, to be a part of our Product Teams that defines, builds, and delivers our product features. As a Senior team member, you will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best way to achieve them together with other Engineers and dedicated Product Team members.</span></p> <p><span>Your role encompasses refining, architecting, executing, and actively contributing to the continuous evolution of our team's capabilities. Y</span><span>ou will also actively support your engineering lead in delivering a quality, maintainable and international top-class product, whilst being a role model for less-senior team members, by taking responsibility for problems and using your expertise to identify the right solutions.  </span></p> <p><span><strong>The Tech Stack</strong></span></p> <p><span>We have created a scalable Spring Boot Application running on Java 21 in Kubernetes, deployed in a multi-region setup in AWS. Developers are able to run a full development environment locally, which gives a great developer experience.</span></p> <p><span><strong>Your Mission</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span>Build and evolve our backend services and infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth curve.</span></li> <li><span>Develop exciting new features to make our users and partners’ experience better</span></li> <li><span>Actively participate in your team’s development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.</span></li> <li><span>Strive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability.</span></li> <li><span>Take on additional tasks outside your current boundaries with help from your team to continue to grow and expand your skills.</span></li> </ul> <p><span><strong>The ideal candidates</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span>Have a wealth of experience in <strong>Backend</strong> development within the <strong>Java ecosystem</strong>.</span></li> <li><span>Have proven production experience with <strong>Java, Spring Boot</strong>, MySQL &amp; Message Systems.</span></li> <li><span>Have worked with Domain Driven Design, Clean or Hexagonal Architecture.</span></li> <li><span>Have sound knowledge of <strong>AWS services</strong> (SQS, SNS, S3…).</span></li> <li><span>Have experience with building scalable solutions.</span></li> <li><span>Enjoy actively participating in a cross-functional product team.</span></li> <li><span>Take pride in writing quality code.</span></li> </ul> <p><span><a href="https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en/code-of-ethics"><strong>Our values</strong></a></span></p> <ul> <li><span>We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We believe in a #oneteam.</span></li> <li><span>We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.</span></li> <li><span>We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.</span></li> <li><span>We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving. </span></li> <li><span>We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.</span></li> </ul> <p><span><strong>What We Have To Offer</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span>An opportunity to work in a global social-impact company and certified B Corporation! where you can see a real and tangible impact in your role.</span></li> <li><span>To be an integral member of our defined product teams. We are eager for you to make an impact and contribute to the product scope and development; Your insights are valuable, and we are here to listen.</span></li> <li><span>Work-life balance is important to us! Focus on the job to be done, not the hours spent, there is no need for overtime. On-call duty is not part of the job, but can be additionally agreed upon should you and your manager both wish it. We believe that happy environments create happy employees. </span></li> <li><span>We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that p