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 a broad 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 the Core and Commons tribe at TheFork, focused on providing transversal functional capabilities consumed by all tribes. Its mission is to build and maintain the technical blocks necessary for customer-facing functionalities for both B2C and B2B customers. The team's scope includes bookings, offers, and availability. While not directly implementing new end-user features, the team supports customer-facing teams by providing new capabilities in core components, testing, documentation, and promoting good practices. The Core Marketplace team consists of 4 engineers, mostly senior profiles, distributed across France, Italy, and with contractors in Romania.

The technical stack includes:

• React & GraphQL for web front-end
• NodeJS & Typescript for backend services (microservice-based architecture)
• Json RPC for internal service communications
• PHP / Symfony for legacy components being decommissioned
• PostgreSQL & ElasticSearch for storage
• RabbitMQ as an event bus for domain events
• Datadog for monitoring
• Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting

As a senior backend engineer, you will contribute to the team's roadmap by:

• Working closely with the product manager on functional and technical discovery of new features, including requirements understanding, technical analysis, and task scoping.
• Collaborating with senior engineers on the development and delivery of features.
• Assisting the QA team during testing and validation.
• Transversally collaborating with other teams 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:

• A senior software engineer with relevant years of experience building backend services and applications.
• Solid technical background in web technologies (6-10 years).
• Rigorous, dynamic, and curious, with an agile mindset and strong team spirit, adaptable to a changing environment.
• Experience building software with a problem-solving approach, leveraging customer inputs iteratively ("Product Discovery").
• Understanding that coding is not the only job; ability to challenge product and stakeholder decisions, perform analysis, monitor post-release, write documentation, and communicate about new features.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications and coding best practices such as DDD, TDD, BDD.
• Comfortable writing and speaking in English.

You Can Impress With These Additions:

• Great communication skills, including explaining work to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Basic knowledge of GraphQL and PHP/Symfony.
• Good understanding of SQL databases and SQL queries.
• Comfortable working in a distributed remote team with engineers in various locations (within the same timezone).

What we offer you:

• An awesome team.
• A permanent contract.
• Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week, plus up to 4 additional weeks of flexibility for fully remote work during summer and December).
• Competitive fixed salary and bonus.
• Lunch vouchers for each working day.
• International teams and a multicultural environment across 10 offices in Europe.
• Highly inclusive working environment.
• Lifestyle benefits for expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel, etc.
• Continuous learning and development programs.
• Free access to the Calm app.
• Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid).
• Company-covered health insurance.
• Financial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships, or marriage.
• Transport allowance.
• Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Amazing offices with dining, coffee points, and leisure areas.
• Team building events.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring your unique perspectives and experiences to 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 selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.