Backend Engineer, TheFork

• GraphQL for front-end APIs
• 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
• 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 (3-5 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

Desirable

• The Journey Enablers team sits at the heart of the Core and Commons tribe at TheFork.Our goal is to build transversal non-functional capabilities that are consumed by all tribes
• The team’s scope includes Authentication, Translation management, Transactional communications (SMS, Emails & Push notifications), Geo referential system and more
• The team is responsible for building the enablers strategy and ensuring the technical excellence of the core components, in other words:
• Designing components that are up to date with the technical standards
• Building maintainable and scalable core components
• Building and maintaining third party integrations with multiple providers (Twilio, Phrase, Braze to name a few)
• Ensuring smooth integration with customer facing capabilities
• Delivering the necessary tools to the feature teams using our components (dev portals, documentation, guidelines, test utils…)
• Providing the technical KPIs to monitor the components execution health
• The team is not directly in charge of implementing the new features for the end user. Instead, in addition to its own projects, the team will support the “customer-facing” teams by providing new capabilities in the core components when needed
• The Journey Enablers team is already composed of 3 engineers (Backend developers), mostly senior profiles. The team is distributed across different locations (France, with contractors in Portugal)
• As a backend engineer in the team, you are expected to contribute to the team’s roadmap & delivery
• Working closely with our product manager, tribe architect & staff engineer on the functional and technical discovery of new features (understanding requirements, defining technical analysis and scoping the technical tasks)
• Working closely with your fellow senior engineers on the development and delivery of these features
• Helping our QA team during testing and validation
• Collaborating transversally with other teams from all the tribes across the engineering department to build cross functional functionalities
• Producing relevant documentation for processes in the team’s scope
• Continuously improving the team’s processes and KPIs