Senior Backend Engineer - Core marketplace

TheFork; Milano; Ibrido; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading restaurant booking platform in Milan seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance core functionalities and collaborate across teams. This role offers a permanent contract, a competitive salary with bonuses, and flexible working conditions, including remote work options. Candidates should have extensive experience in backend services development and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Servizi

Competitive fixed salary and bonus

Flexible working environment with home office options

Lunch vouchers

Health insurance fully covered

Continuous learning and development programs

Dedicated parental leave policies

Competenze

• Senior software engineer with experience building backend services.
• Solid technical background in web technologies required.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications.

Mansioni

• Contribute to the team’s roadmap and collaborate with other teams.
• Work closely with product manager on feature discovery.
• Support QA team during testing and validation.

Conoscenze

Backend services development

Web technologies

Agile mindset

Problem-solving

Good communication

Formazione

Relevant years of experience in software engineering (6-10 years)

Strumenti

React

GraphQL

NodeJS

Typescript

PostgreSQL

ElasticSearch

PHP/Symfony

RabbitMQ

Descrizione del lavoro

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚
At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.
We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people‑first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values 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 Core Marketplace team is part of Core and Commons tribe at TheFork whose mission is to provide transversal functional capabilities to be consumed by all tribes. Its mission is to build and maintain all the technical blocks necessary to provide customer facing functionalities aimed at our B2C and B2B customers.
• The team’s scope includes bookings, offers and availability.
• 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 if something is missing, but also testing, documentation & good practices.
• The Core Marketplace team is composed of 4 engineers, mostly senior profiles.
• The technical stack used by the team:
• React & GraphQL for web front‑end
• 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 24×7 operations and ease of troubleshooting
• We are 100% Kubernetes & AWS for orchestration & hosting
• As a senior backend engineer in the team, you are expected to contribute to the team’s roadmap and work closely with product manager, senior engineers, QA and other tribes.
• Working closely with our product manager 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 the team’s scope
• Continuously enhancing the team’s processes and KPIs

Qualifications

• You are a senior software engineer with relevant years of experience building backend services and applications.
• You have a solid technical background in web technologies (6‑10 years).
• You are rigorous, dynamic & curious, equipped with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allows 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 that 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, and after the release you are monitoring, writing documentation, and communicating about what is now available.
• You have experience with architectural patterns of large‑scale applications and coding good practices such as DDD, TDD, BDD.
• You are comfortable writing and speaking in English.

Nice to Have

• You have great communication skills and can explain your work to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• You have a basic knowledge of GraphQL and PHP/Symphony (that could be useful in this position).
• You have a good understanding of SQL databases and SQL queries.
• You are comfortable working in a distributed remote team with engineers in various locations.

What We Offer

• An awesome team.
• A permanent contract.
• Flexible working environment: 2 days home office per week non‑negotiable + up to 4 additional weeks of fully remote flexibility during the summer and December.
• Competitive fixed salary and bonus.
• Lunch vouchers available for each working day.
• International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe.
• Highly inclusive working environment.
• 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.
• Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid).
• Health insurance fully covered by the company.
• Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Transport allowance.
• Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area.
• Team building events.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio‑economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law - has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application, interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to [e-mail]. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.