At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.
40% of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste.
Were more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Technologies offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.
Were growing fast: Our community of 133 million registered users and 261,000 active partners across 20 countries, have together already prevented 517+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 1.397.000 tonnes of CO2e!
The Role
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer, to be a part of our Manufacturing Team that define, build and deliver our product features. As a Team Member in a product team, you will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best way to achieve them together with the other Engineers and other Product Team members.
Youll be joining the Parcels (Manufacturing) team, a fast-growing and relatively new part of Too Good To Go. This team is behind the Delivery tab in the app, which enables users to purchase parcels and have them delivered directly to their homes.
The Parcels product is already live in several countries, including France, Germany, and Italy. As part of the expansion to a basket model, youll have the opportunity to help shape and build exciting new features.
Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver and maintain various product features.
The Tech Stack
We have created a scalable Spring Boot Application running on Java 25 in Kubernetes, deployed in a multi-region setup in AWS. Developers are able to run a full development environment locally, which gives a great developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve our backend services and infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth curve.
- Develop exciting new features for our customers and businesses who partner with us.
- Actively participate in your teams agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Strive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability.
- Take on additional tasks outside your current boundaries with help from your team to continue to grow and expand your skills.
The ideal candidate
- You have a proactive, ownership-driven mindset, and thrive in fast-paced start-up like teams
- A wealth of experience in Backend development with the Java ecosystem.
- Proven production experience with Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, Message System & GIT.
- Has worked with Domain Driven Design, and Clean, or Hexagonal Architecture.
- Knowledge of AWS services (SQS, SNS, S3), ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with Restful APIs.
- Experience with building scalable solutions.
- Experience with an AI agentic coding assistant.
- Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team.
- Takes pride in writing quality code.
Our values
- We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We believe in a #oneteam.
- We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.
- We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.
- We build a legacy: Were proud of the change were driving.
- We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.
What We Have To Offer
- An opportunity to work in a global social-impact company and certified B Corporation! where you can see a real and tangible impact in your role.
- To be an integral member of our defined product teams. We are eager for you to make an impact and contribute to the product scope and development; Your insights are valuable, and we are here to listen.
- Work-life balance is important to us! Focus on the job to be done, not the hours spent, there is no need for overtime. On-call duty is not part of the job, but can be additionally agreed upon should you and your manager both wish it. We believe that happy environments create happy employees.
- We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that provides several opportunities for employees to contribute, develop and take ownership of their work in a way that works for them.
- To be part of an international company, with over 1,300+ colleagues across 20 countries that are on the same important mission.
- An informal environment, working alongside 190+ passionate people within Tech & Product
- We celebrate our differences and our successes and have a strong values-driven team culture.
- We work in a hybrid set-up and value in office work weekly.
- We may be able to support you with a working visa in Copenhagen, please be prepared to discuss this topic further as your first stage interview.
How to apply
- We take recruitment very seriously, so please carefully read everything we have written above.
- Please also check our website and international media in order to get a good overview of Too Good To Go.
- Please submit your CV and Cover letter in English.
- Please note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. No CV or Cover Letter will be accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging.
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A Movement for Everyone
We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, its only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when were allowed to be ourselves, and were committed to a culture where all of us belong.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
