Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java/Spring boot)

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.

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. 

We’re more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation 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 Technologies offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.

We’re growing fast: Our community of 86 million registered users and 209,000 active partners across 17 countries, have together already prevented 294+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 735,000 tonnes of CO2e!

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer - Backend, to be a part of our Internal Efficiency team. As a team member you will be given freedom and responsibility to design and implement solutions to real world problems together with stakeholders from all over the company.

You will be involved in all parts of the process when refining, designing, implementing, delivering and maintaining product features. 

Your task will be to develop, build and deliver an international top-class product, ensuring quality, maintainability, and sustainability. Supported by other experienced colleagues who will guide, train and encourage you to push limits, and improve. We want to be proud of our work and focus more on quality than deadlines.

Tasks can both involve improving tools to help our colleagues in the rest of the company work more efficiently, and automating business essential tasks like invoicing partners, or other financial reporting requiring an analytical mind and attention to detail.

The Tech Stack

We have created a scalable Spring Boot Application running on Java 17 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our backend services and infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth
• Help improve the quality of life for our colleagues in the rest of the organization
• Automate heavy business processes like monthly invoicing of our 208,000 partners
• Actively participate in your team’s agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset
• Strive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability

The ideal candidate

• A wealth of experience in Backend development with the Java ecosystem.
• A previous role at Senior level, where you were involved in analysing problems and designing and implementing solutions to solve them
• Proven production experience with Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, Message System & GIT.
• Has worked with Domain Driven Design, and Clean, or Hexagonal- Architecture.
• Knowledge of AWS services (SQS, SNS, S3…), ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with building scalable solutions.
• Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional tech team.
• Takes pride in writing quality code.

Our values

• We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We can do it if we win together as Waste Warriors with no ego. We believe in a #oneteam.
• We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.
• We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.
• We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving. 
• We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.

What We Have To Offer

• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 
• We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that provides several opportunities for employees to contri