Senior Backend Engineer

<p>Welcome to our fabulous world. 🍴We are <em><strong>TheFork</strong></em>. Our mission is to <em><strong>bring happiness through amazing dining experiences,</strong></em> thanks to our 3 main products :</p> <p>📱 <strong>TheFork App</strong> : the restaurant discovery and booking app for every occasion</p> <p>🖥️ <strong>TheFork Manager</strong> : the tool to digitize restaurant operations and be in full control of your business</p> <p><strong>💳 TheFork Pay &amp; gift cards :</strong> the new and amazing dining payment experience</p> <p>Creator of a unique model that disrupted the restaurant industry 15 years ago, we are now the <strong>leading dining platform</strong> across Europe and Australia. We are experiencing an exciting period of growth, and we need the greatest folks onboard. Together, we will make our wildest dreams come true! We strongly believe that our mission can only be achieved if we also bring happiness to our working environment. We do this by providing a <strong>flexible, multicultural  and positive environment</strong> where each individual has the space to grow.</p> <p>We nurture this happy culture through our <strong>core values</strong>: We are better together -  We act like an owner - We genuinely care for our users and customers - We believe in transparency - We never stop learning - Speed wins</p> <p>Oh! And we are also part of the big Tripadvisor family ❤️</p> <p>With love,</p> <p>Your future buddies, the Forkies.</p> <h1><strong>TheFork is looking for a Software Engineering</strong></h1> <h2>Platform Domain</h2> <ul> <li>Platform domain is one of the 4 product &amp; engineering domains which compose TheFork. The others domains are Restaurant Xp and Diners Xp, Internal Users Xp.</li> <li>Platform domain is composed of QA, DevOps, SecOps, Architects, DevXp, Journey Enablers, and Core Market Place</li> <li>Platform domain's main responsibility is to <ol> <li><strong>empower engineers</strong> to confidently deliver solutions with quality, performance, and scalability.</li> <li>support the technical platform and its <strong>scalability</strong></li> <li>Provide <strong>shared components and core capabilities</strong></li> </ol> </li> </ul> <h2>Core Market Place</h2> <p>We are building a brand new team to provide <strong>shared core business functional capabilities</strong> to be consumed by all tribes. This is including the core of our booking system: Reservations, Offers, Availabilities, Restaurant content, and even the developer portal to facilitate external connections</p> <p>The team is not directly in charge of implementing the new features for the end user. Instead, in addition to its own projects, <strong>the team will support the “customer-facing” teams</strong> by providing new capabilities in the core components if something is missing, but also documentation &amp; good practices.</p> <h2><strong>What technologies are we using?</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>React &amp; GraphQL</strong> for web front-end</li> <li><strong>NodeJS &amp; Typescript</strong> (+ PHP / Symfony for a few legacy components) for back-end building a horizontally scalable <strong>microservice-based architecture</strong> to serve customers in 13 countries.</li> <li>Storage is mostly handled by <strong>PostgreSQL &amp; ElasticSearch</strong></li> <li>Domain events are propagated through RabbitMQ as an event bus</li> <li>Our websites and servers are monitored with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK for 24x7 operations and ease of troubleshooting</li> <li>We are <strong>100% Kubernetes &amp; AWS</strong> for orchestration &amp; hosting</li> </ul> <h2>Who you are:</h2> <ul> <li>You have a solid technical background in web technologies (at least 4-6 years)</li> <li>You are rigorous, dynamic &amp; curious, equipped with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allow you to adapt to a changing environment</li> <li>You have experience building software with a problem-solving approach leveraging customer inputs in an iterative manner ("Product Discovery")</li> <li>You understand writing code is not your only job, you are also able to <strong>challenge product and stakeholder decisions</strong>, you need to “<strong>think first</strong>” with some analysis pages, after the release, you are monitoring, writing documentation, and communicating about what is now available.</li> <li>You have experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications</li> <li>You are comfortable <strong>writing and speaking in English</strong></li> </ul> <h2>What we offer you:</h2> <p>😄 An awesome team (not everybody like our jokes, but we try our best)</p> <p>🏠 A Permanent contract (that can be useful in life)</p> <p>⚖️ Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week)</p> <p>💸 Competitive fixed salary, bonus and equity (yes, equity!)</p> <p>🍕 Lunch vouchers</p> <p>🌎 International teams - More than 30 nationalities and 16 offices worldwide</p> <p>🏳️‍🌈 Highly inclusive working environment</p> <p>🤸‍♀️ Lifestyl