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Software Engineer

Paris

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 the broadest 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 :Build & design

  • Design, develop, test, and release reliable software in production.
  • Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, challenging existing solutions when relevant.
  • Write clean, well-scoped code and review peers’ contributions.

Operate & improve

  • Own releases end-to-end, including monitoring, incident investigation, and recovery.
  • Use observability and metrics to ensure quality, performance, and reliability.
  • Continuously improve code quality, testing practices, and engineering processes.

Deliver & collaborate


• Contribute to project planning, estimations, risk identification, and incremental delivery.
• Work closely with Product and Design to deliver user-centric solutions.

The technical stack used by the team:

  • GraphQL for front-end API
  • NodeJS & Typescript for backend services structured in a microservice-based architecture
  • Json RPC for internal communications with services
  • PHP / Symfony for a few legacy components that are being decommissioned
  • Storage is mostly handled by PostgreSQL & ElasticSearch
  • Domain events are propagated through RabbitMQ as an event bus
  • Our websites and servers are monitored with Datadog for 24x7 operations and ease of troubleshooting
  • We are 100% Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting

Who you are:


You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications

  • You are an experienced software engineer with several years of experience building backend services and applications
  • You have a solid technical background in web technologies (4-5 years)
  • You have an appetite for technical challenges and a first experience with distributed architectural patterns in a microservice environment
  • You are rigorous, dynamic & curious with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allow you to adapt to a changing environment
  • You have experience building software with a problem-solving approach leveraging customer inputs in an iterative manner ("Product Discovery")
  • You understand writing code is not your only job, you are also able to challenge product and stakeholder decisions, you need to “think first” with some analysis phase, after the release, you are monitoring, writing documentation, and communicating about what has been delivered.
  • You are comfortable writing and speaking in English.

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 and 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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