Senior Backend Engineer, Choco
Integrations
3-5 days a week in office
Enabling a sustainable food system
Open for applications
Enabling a sustainable food system
201-500 employees
Open for applications
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To lead a change in one of the oldest industries on the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer with strong expertise in TypeScript and Node.js
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and API design principles
- Proven track record building and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs with a focus on scalability and backward compatibility
- Hands-on experience with integration patterns, data synchronization, and operating software at scale
- Strong problem-solving, documentation, and collaboration skills - you take ownership from design to deployment in agile environments
Desirable
- Experience with NestJS or similar modern backend frameworks
- Background working with ERP systems, integration platforms, or iPaaS solutions
- Familiarity with n8n or other workflow automation tools
- Understanding of e-commerce data models (catalogs, orders, inventory) and public API design
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic) and awareness of SOC2 compliance best practices
- Contributions to open-source projects or developer communities
What the job involves
- The Integrations team is at the heart of this mission, powering seamless data exchange between Choco and wholesalers’ ERP systems
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives on solving complex integration challenges, designing robust APIs, and architecting distributed systems at scale
- You’ll play a key role in shaping our Public API platform, developing integration adapters, and enabling data synchronization for thousands of businesses across Europe and the US
- Design, build, and scale backend systems and Public API endpoints that enable seamless data exchange between Choco and external ERP systems
- Develop and maintain integration adapters to ensure reliable data conversion and synchronization of catalogs, orders, pricing, and inventory
- Architect and optimize scalable solutions and automation to improve integration performance, reliability, and time-to-go-live
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Solution Engineers and Product teams to troubleshoot integration challenges and deliver smooth customer go-lives
- Monitor, test, and continuously improve system performance, observability, and developer experience through high-quality documentation and agile delivery
- Our Technology Stack:
- We operate a modern, high-performance environment built on:
- Languages: TypeScript (Node.js)
- Frameworks: NestJS, internal libraries for AWS Lambda
- Infrastructure: AWS (serverless), EKS (Kubernetes), AWS CDK, Helm
- Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
- APIs: REST, GraphQL with OAuth 2.0 security
- Workflows: n8n for automation and integration orchestration
- Monitoring: Datadog for tracing, metrics, and alerting
Our take
The restaurant industry has seen vast technological innovations throughout the last decade, yet the state of supply chain ordering and administration does not reflect this. Restaurants are still using archaic paperwork to order from suppliers, and this has the tendency to become clunky, inaccurate, and result in food waste. Choco exists to improve this situation by connecting restaurants and suppliers through its food ecosystem management software.
Choco isn't the only company to notice the potential for disruption in this space, but it has taken a unique approach by providing bespoke inventory applications and analytical tools to both restaurants and suppliers. Because of this, it has a large and rapidly growing userbase and its supply chain now links more than 31,000 businesses globally, with more than £1.2 billion in goods traded on its platform.
It's also raised large amounts of capital in several funding rounds and achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. It now has eyes on expansion, currently working with clients across the U.S. and Europe but also planning to begin operations in South America, the Middle East, and Asia in the near future.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$29m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$38.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $342m
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Daniel Khachab
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experienced as Global Venture Development Manager and CEO of Rocket Internet SE.
Julian Hammer
(Co-Founder)Before co-founding Choco, they freelanced in Product & Marketing with Ace & Tate, BuzzHire and UpLabs. Before that, they were a Senior Venture Associate with EPIC Companies and the Head of Marketing Intelligence for Global Savings Group.
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