Senior Software Engineer, TheFork
Search Team
Offers bonus
3+ days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation platform
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Online restaurant reservation platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers bonus
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's favourite restaurants and the broadest community of loyal diners.
Role
Who you are
- You have a solid technical background in web technologies (at least 8-10 years)
- Strong expertise in NodeJS & Typescript (+ PHP / Symfony for a few legacy components) for backend building a horizontally scalable micro service - based architecture to serve customers in 13 countries
- Experiences in Python for our AI new micro services !
- Knowledge in storage like PostgreSQL & OpenSearch
- Knowledge in React & GraphQL for web front-end
- You have experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications
- You are rigorous, dynamic & curious, equipped with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allow you to adapt to a changing environment
- Experience with high-traffic distributed systems
- You are comfortable writing and speaking in English
Desirable
- Strong understanding of search systems (OpenSearch, Ranking, Autocomplete, Maps)
- Knowledge of RabbitMQ as an event bus
- Knowledge of Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting
- Ability to work cross-team with Core Tribe and AI teams
- Data modeling and performance optimization
- Ownership of micro services lifecycle
What the job involves
- You’ll join the Diner Experience Tribe which is one of the 5 Product & Engineering Tribes which compose TheFork Engineering Group. The other tribes are Restaurant XP, Core, Commons and Platform
- DXP Tribe is composed of 6 Teams : Discover, Search, Decide, PostBooking, Social and Want More
- You’ll join the Search Team which is in charge of the whole search experiences across the Apps and Web :
- Provide the best suggestions when users are typing in our search field
- Display as Best in Class XP our restaurant supply on Map & List
- Let users filter and sort quickly and efficiently their results
- Our team is composed of 1 Engineering Manager, 1 Product Manager, 1 Product Designer, 1 Quality Analyst and 7 developers (2 iOS, 2 android, 1 FrontEnd, 2 BackEnds), plus you
- Moreover our team is closely linked to the Core Tribe which builds the foundations of our Recommendation algorithm and our AI stack that we are using every day
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with leadership (Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Product Designer)
- Design and deliver growth-driven features
- Leading and driving technical designs
- Interacting with Core Tribe for AI / search foundations
- Mentoring developers
- Ensuring performance and scalability
- Owning critical components
- Defining quality standards
Our take
Aiding the digitisation of the hospitality industry, TheFork offers users a seamless way to find restaurants they will enjoy, read user reviews, check real-time availability and make instant online reservations. It also provides restaurants with TheFork Manager, a software solution designed to optimise reservation management and streamline operations,
A TripAdvisor company, TheFork has made significant contributions to the global dining industry. It has partnered with 55,000 restaurants, achieved over 30 million app downloads, and attracted millions of users. Its software helps restaurants improve their service, which is great for diners too, and boost revenue by making their operations more efficient.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2022, TheFork has firmly cemented itself as a top player in the space. It is able to serve restaurants of any size, including small and family-run restaurants, supporting them as the industry becomes more complex. On top of this, it has launched AI-powered search to help diners find their next restaurant in an intuitive and personalised way.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 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 wrok fully remotely)
- Lunch vouchers available 3 working days per week
- 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
- Attractive pension plans
- Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area
- Team building events
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
Leadership
Almir Ambeskovic
(CEO)Prior to being appointed as CEO, they were Vice President of Sales and Marketing for TheFork. They have also directly led several countries as General Manager at TheFork since 2015.
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