Backend Software Engineer

Too Good To Go — United Kingdom · Posted ~2 hours ago

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Backend software development Software engineering API development Scalable systems

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A backend software engineer is sought to contribute to technology that helps reduce global food waste. The role offers the chance to work on systems operating at substantial international scale while contributing to a mission with clear environmental and social impact.

Highlights

Mission-driven engineering opportunity focused on reducing food waste, working at significant international scale and contributing to technology with measurable environmental and social impact.

Description

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious mission: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. More than 1/3 of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet. 10% of greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste and loss. Through our marketplace app, we connect businesses that have unsold, surplus food, with consumers who can buy and enjoy it at ⅓ of retail value. We are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste. Alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste. We’re growing fast: Our community of 120 million registered users and 180,000 active partners across 20 countries, have together already saved over 500 million meals from going to waste In 2023, Too Good To Go was recognised on Fortune's acclaimed 'Change the World' list, named as one of Deloitte's 'Best Managed Companies' and won a coveted 'Cultural Impact Award' at the annual Apple App Store Awards. The Role We are building a brand-new engineering hub in London, and we are looking for foundational Backend Software Engineers to help us kick it off. This is a unique opportunity: you will be joining a completely new team, building a new hub from scratch, and working remotely from the rest of our global Tech organisation. As an integral part of this new product team, you will help define, build, and deliver our product features. You will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best way to achieve them together with your team. Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver, and maintain an international top-class product, ensuring quality, maintainability, and sustainability. 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 team’s 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 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.Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team.Takes pride in writing quality code. Our Values We Win TogetherWe Raise the BarWe Keep It SimpleWe Build A LegacyWe Care What we have to offer A rare opportunity to work in a social impact company (and certified B Corporation!) where you can see real and tangible impact in your role.Working alongside an international community of users, partners and 1,200+ colleagues across 20 countries that are on the same important mission.Personal and professional development opportunities in a fast-paced scale-up environment.An inclusive company culture where you can bring your authentic self to workA strong, values-driven team culture where we celebrate successes and socialise with colleagues that care. Benefits WORK FLEXIBLY: Enjoy hybrid working from our great officeExtra parental leave and days off beyond local legislation and the option to take an extra week of unpaid leaveHealth insurance and pension plans.Additional days off for significant life events CELEBRATE & SOCIALISE Regular social events like summer and winter parties.Coffee, snacks and fully-equipped kitchens.Get to know our community with a monthly free Surprise BagPaid volunteer time through our Shareback volunteering programmeWomen in the Workplace, P.R.I.D.E., People of Colour and Functionally Diverse Employee Resource Groups 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. 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.