Senior Back End Engineer, Taster
+ Quarterly bonus scheme
2-3 days a week in office
Platform of digital food brands
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Platform of digital food brands
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Quarterly bonus scheme
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the world's largest restaurant group through a powerful platform of digital food brands.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in backend development
- Strong experience with Python (FastAPI or similar frameworks)
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Solid experience with GCP (or similar cloud platforms)
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and asynchronous systems
- Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, and system reliability
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures is a plus
- Experience coding with LLM-assisted tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
- Interest in integrating AI into backend systems and workflows
- Ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity and system capabilities
- Autonomy & Ownership: Able to drive projects independently end-to-end
- Collaboration: Comfortable working cross-functionally
- Product ownership mindset: Acts as a product builder, not just an implementer, challenges requirements, understands user and business impact, and takes responsibility for delivering the right solution
- Fluent in English
- Fluent in French
What the job involves
- At Taster, we’re building the technology layer powering the restaurants of tomorrow
- Our backend systems are at the core of everything we do — from order orchestration across multiple delivery platforms, to powering internal tools, data pipelines, and real-time decision-making systems
- As we scale, we’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen our backend team and help us build robust, scalable, and intelligent systems
- You’ll play a key role in shaping the architecture, enabling product velocity, and integrating AI-powered capabilities into our platform
- Taster’s proprietary tech stack is the backbone of a composed architecture of home made application and External Software as a service. Our products range from multi-platform order ingestion to Click & Collect, internal tooling, and invoicing capabilities
- Own complex backend features end-to-end, from design to deployment and iteration
- Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and operations teams
- Design and build scalable APIs and services powering customer-facing and internal tools
- Ensure reliability and performance of critical systems (ordering, payments, operations)
- Design robust, scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform
- Improve system reliability, observability, and performance
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Lead technical discussions and contribute to architecture decisions and best practices
- Continuously improve CI/CD, monitoring, and system resilience
- Evaluate when to leverage LLMs vs traditional coding approaches depending on reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability
- At Taster, we use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted environments to accelerate development when relevant
- Make pragmatic decisions on build vs prompt vs hybrid architectures
- Contribute to defining best practices around AI-assisted engineering within the team
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing
- Raise the bar on backend quality, performance, and scalability
- Take ownership of technical topics and drive improvements across the backend stack
- Contribute to a culture of autonomy, ownership, and continuous improvement
Our take
VC investment has been pouring into food delivery startups over recent years, as the restaurant industry’s fastest-growing market saw a doubling down on innovation. This has spelt trouble for smaller independent locales struggling to digitally transform, and the continued rise of dark kitchens (where delivery capacity, usually for chain brands, is substantially expanded at a fraction of the overhead) is only making this worse. Taster might prove a welcome compromise.
The company partners with restaurants to plug their brands into their existing kitchens. It means that restaurants can earn (potentially) an additional £5,000 - £25,000 per week.
Taster currently has 5 brands. By avoiding the need to build kitchens, the company can enter new cities much quicker and harness the local market knowledge of restaurant owners. They now have a vast range of digital restaurants across 70 cities, and have delivered millions of meals.
The company has won impressive VC funding to help it expand its already substantial European presence. Taster is a welcome and exciting development in this highly lucrative market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$0.6m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $50.6m
Company benefits
- Private healthcare
- Choice of Mac or PC
- Flexible work environment
- Regular team events
- Quarterly bonuses
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Anton Soulier
(Founder & CEO)Previously a founder at Nunée desserts. Went on to become the Deputy General Manager, France for Deliveroo.
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