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Staff Software Engineer

Milan

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚 

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table, and we are on a mission to connect the world’s favorite restaurants and the broadest community of loyal diners. Finding the best dining experience for our Diners community or boosting restaurant performance for our Restaurateurs Partners has never been easier thanks to our signature products: 

  • 📱TheFork App: our free restaurant discovery & booking app that helps you find your next table with ease.
  • 💻TheFork Manager: our innovative software tool that digitizes restaurant operations, empowering our Restaurateurs to manage bookings efficiently and boost their revenue.
  • 💳TheFork PAY and TheFork Gift Card: quick and easy ways to pay directly from TheFork app

At TheFork, we also believe that people truly make the difference. None of this would be possible without our vibrant Forkies community. Our strong core values—Better Together, Ownership, Respect, and Growth—are the guiding principles of everything we do, shaping our behaviors: “Come as you are,” “Dig in,” and “Make it Memorable”.  

TheFork leads the restaurant booking market in Europe and operates in 11 countries. Our offices boast a fully international team working together in a flexible, multicultural, and constructive environment that provides everyone with space to grow, both professionally and personally.

To learn more about TheFork and our Forkies, explore our official site: https://www.careers.thefork.com

Get to know the team:

The Core & Commons Tribe is at the heart of TheFork's technical ecosystem and is composed of three main groups. Core teams build and maintain the software components that power our marketplace. Commons teams develop the technologies behind our front-ends and APIs. Data Enlightenment enables innovation across the organisation by leveraging data and AI.

About the role:

The Staff Engineer in the Core & Commons Tribe is a senior technical leader responsible for driving alignment across multiple teams within the Tribe. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering of Core & Commons, the Staff Engineer ensures that the Tribe’s technical solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the company’s overall engineering strategy. The role focuses on solving cross-team challenges, fostering collaboration, and enabling teams to work more effectively. The Staff Engineer is expected to lead high-impact technical initiatives and collaborate with Engineers and stakeholders within Core & Commons and beyond.

What you will do:

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for the Tribe, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.
  • Partner with Tribe leadership (Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, and Product Leaders) to align technical direction with business objectives.
  • Mentor engineers to solve complex problems, improve technical skills, and foster professional growth.
  • Lead design reviews, provide technical oversight, and evaluate emerging technologies that could benefit the Tribe.
  • Advocate for tools, frameworks, and processes that enhance system performance and developer productivity.
  • Contribute to technical development, set quality standards, and ensure system reliability through direct contributions and reviews.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate technical concepts into business-aligned outcomes and ensure effective communication.

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications 

  • 10+ years of experience in building and scaling complex distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to influence across team boundaries and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with expertise in high-level architecture and low-level technical details.
  • Experience in cross-functional leadership with a track record of driving successful initiatives.
  • Ability to mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical and professional growth.
  • Fluent in Typescript and / or Javascript. Comfortable with SQL. Knowledge of Python is a plus.
  • Fluency in English; additional languages are a bonus.

You Can Impress With These Additions

  • Knowledge or experience working with data platforms or cloud-based data ecosystems is a plus.

What we offer you:

😄 An awesome team 

🏠 A permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 

⚖️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week +  up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

💸 Competitive fixed salary & bonus

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  

🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

🤝 Highly inclusive working environment 

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc 

🎓 Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

🐣Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

🏥Health insurance

👩‍🦽 Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can 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 participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

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