Senior Backend Software Engineer

• The Core Marketplace team is part of Core and Commons tribe at TheFork which 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, availabilities, Gift Cards, payment management as well as partner integrations (Google, TripAdvisor to name a few)
• 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 5 engineers (Backend and full stack developers), mostly senior profiles. The team is distributed across different locations (France, Italy, Spain with contractors in Romania as well)

• 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 24x7 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

• 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

• 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 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 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.

• You have great communication skills including the ability to 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 (but within the same timezone)

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