Fullstack Engineer - Post Booking Team
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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 worlds favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.
Were 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 youre passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.
Discover life at TheFork
The Post Booking team is a core component of TheFork's Diner eXPerience (DxP) tribe, focused on cultivating diner trust, loyalty, and re-engagement within our B2C audience.
The teams scope covers critical areas including transactional emails, user management, user settings and preferences, booking modifications and sharing, and user reviews.
This team is responsible for enhancing the post-booking and review experiences by optimizing user flows and ensuring the technical modernization and excellence of our underlying systems.
The team is led by a trio (Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Product Designer) and includes three native application engineers (iOS and Android). You will collaborate closely with two full-stack engineers and two backend engineers. The team operates in a distributed setup across various locations (France, with contractors in Poland and Ukraine).
What you will do
As a Fullstack Engineer, your responsibilities center on contributing to the teams roadmap and ensuring successful delivery:
- Feature Discovery: Collaborate with the Product Manager, Engineer Manager on the functional and technical discovery of new features (defining requirements, scoping technical tasks, and identifying risks).
- Development & Delivery: Work alongside senior engineers to develop and deliver high-quality features.
- Quality Assurance: Support the QA team throughout the testing and validation phases.
- Knowledge Transfer: Create and maintain relevant process documentation for components within the team's scope.
You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications
- Full-Stack & Autonomy: You are proficient in frontend (Web development, Accessibility) and backend (server-side logic, APIs, DBs) technologies and operate independently.
- Architectural Ownership: You are starting to own architectural decisions, can suggest alternatives to current designs, and write technical analysis with guidance from our technical leaders.
- Quality & Testing: You autonomously write unit and functional tests and provide valuable, constructive code review feedback.
- Product-Oriented: You build software iteratively, utilizing product insights to drive a problem-solving approach. You contribute autonomously to project execution and use monitoring tools to ensure smooth deployment and optimal user experience.
- Communication: You are proficient in written and spoken English and can communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
You Can Impress With These Additions
- Collaboration skills: Experience establishing productive relationships with adjacent teams and knowing when/how to escalate broader issues.
- Mentorship: Willingness to guide and mentor more junior engineers on coding best practices.
- Observability: Proficiency in DevOps and Monitoring tools for release health and our technical application metrics.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactiveness in identifying and implementing new processes and tools to improve team efficiency.
Our Technological Stack: What to Expect
- Frontend: React and Next.js (including the use of our internal design system).
- APIs: GraphQL (for our BFF) and JSON-RPC (for internal services).
- Backend: Node.js & TypeScript within a microservice architecture.
- Database: Primarily PostgreSQL.
- Eventing: RabbitMQ (for propagating domain events).
- Infrastructure: 100% Kubernetes & AWS for hosting and orchestration.
- Monitoring: Datadog ensures 24x7 observability and streamlined troubleshooting.
Our Hiring Journey: What to Expect
We aim for a thorough, transparent process. Here is a typical path for successful candidates:
- Step 1: Talent Acquisition interview
- Step 2: Cultural fit interview
- Step 3: Technical test and interview
- Step 4: Final interview with the Head of or Director
What we offer you
- An awesome team
- 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 work fully remotely)
- Competitive fixed salary and bonus
- Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)
- 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 in your mental health journey
- Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)
- Health insurance covered by the company
- Financial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships, or marriage
- Transport allowance
- Health insurance fully covered by the company
- Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area
- Team building events
All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.
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 AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.
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