Backend Engineer - Journey Enablers Team

Overview
Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! The Fork is the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe. We connect a broad community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants, creating unique dining experiences across 11 countries. We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and value a diverse, people-first culture where respect, ownership, growth and better together thrive. If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

What You Will Do

The Journey Enablers team sits at the heart of the Core and Commons tribe  goal is to build transversal non-functional capabilities 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 core components, including:

Designing components that are up to date with 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 tools to feature teams using our components (dev portals, documentation, guidelines, test utilities, etc.)

Providing technical KPIs to monitor component execution health

The team does not directly implement new end-user features. Instead, it supports customer-facing teams by providing new capabilities in core components as needed.

The Journey Enablers team currently consists of 3 senior backend engineers. The team is distributed across locations in France, with contractors in Portugal.

Technical stack includes:
Graph

QL, Node.js & Type Script (microservices), JSON-RPC, PHP/Symfony, Postgre

SQL, Elastic Search, Rabbit

MQ, Datadog, Kubernetes and AWS.

As a backend engineer in the team, you are expected to contribute to the team’s roadmap and delivery, collaborate with product managers and architects, assist QA, collaborate across tribes, produce documentation, and continuously improve processes and KPIs.

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications

You are an experienced software engineer with several years of backend service development experience.

You have a solid technical background in web technologies (3-5 years).

You have experience with distributed architectural patterns in a microservice environment.

You are rigorous, dynamic and curious with an agile mindset and strong team spirit that adapts to change.

You have experience building software with a problem-solving approach using customer inputs in an iterative manner (Product Discovery).

You understand that writing code is not your only job: you can challenge product and stakeholder decisions, think first with analysis, monitor after release, write documentation, and communicate what has been delivered.

You are comfortable writing and speaking in English.

You Can Impress With These Additions

You have strong communication skills to explain work to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You have basic knowledge of Graph

QL and PHP/Symfony (useful in this position).

You have a good understanding of SQL databases and SQL queries.

You are comfortable working in a distributed remote team across locations but within the same timezone.

What We Offer You

An awesome team

A permanent contract

Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week, up to 4 additional weeks flexible remote work during summer and December)

Competitive fixed salary and bonus

Lunch vouchers for working days

International teams and a multicultural environment across 10 offices in Europe

Highly inclusive working environment

Lifestyle benefits for physical and leisure activities, family support, travel, etc.

Continuous learning and development programs

Free access to the Calm app for mental health support

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 areas

Team building events

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