Staff Backend Software Engineer - Tech Hub

At foodpanda we're on a mission to redefine how tech, food, people and cultures are connected. Operating in 12 countries worldwide, our teams are constantly dealing with challenges of scalability, reliability and availability as we grow 6X annually - processing over millions of orders a year. You’ll be part of a highly collaborative cross-functional Agile squad consisting of Frontend and Backend Engineers, Designers and Product Owners. Our squads operate in an open and fast-paced environment where everyone has a say.

We work on a large-scale, complex systems where you can reach users on a global scale whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence in a flexible working environment.

What's on the menu:

• A diver, to the deepest parts of complex software systems to make it simpler.
• Have the mind of an architect, to model hundreds of subsystems mentally before bringing them to life.
• A leader, to involve in complex systems and build with high quality, reliability and security.
• A learner, to learn continuously and knows there are no upper limits in terms of self-improvement.
• An owner, who can take ownership closer to heart and deliver under tight schedules.
• A fantastic team player, who can work with technical and product team members with the highest degree of collaboration.
• A champion of best practices and scalable solutions which affect multiple teams

• You are self-sufficient by owning complex deliverables and driving it from architecture, system design, and all the way to serve millions of users.
• You have good written and verbal communication skills to express solutions to large/ complex problems.
• You care about the quality of your deliverables in terms of resiliency, performance and scalability.
• You have a good eye for relational database performance bottlenecks and know how to circumvent them in every walk of the solution.
• You are versatile about the programming languages or the kind of problems you can solve.
• Experience running & maintaining a (micro-)service environment with decoupled services under high load with large data sets.
• Familiar with cloud provider GCP, AWS and with DevOps practices

All applications must be submitted in English.