Location
London, with hybrid working options from our offices, home, or abroad.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious mission: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. More than one-third of all food produced globally is wasted, contributing to 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Through our marketplace app, we connect businesses with surplus food to consumers who can purchase it at one-third of retail value. As a certified B Corporation, we also develop educational tools, explore new business solutions, and influence legislation to reduce food waste.

We are rapidly growing, with 120 million registered users and 180,000 active partners across 20 countries, having saved over 500 million meals from going to waste. In 2023, Too Good To Go was recognized on Fortune's 'Change the World' list, named one of Deloitte's 'Best Managed Companies', and received the 'Cultural Impact Award' at the Apple App Store Awards.

We are building a new engineering hub in London and seek foundational Senior Backend Software Engineers to join this new team. This unique opportunity involves working remotely from the global Tech organisation while helping to define, build, and deliver product features. You will take ownership of complex backend challenges, collaborate closely with your Lead Engineer, and mentor mid-level engineers as the hub grows.

Our tech stack includes a scalable Spring Boot application running on Java 25 in Kubernetes, deployed in a multi-region AWS setup. Developers enjoy running a full local development environment, ensuring a great developer experience.

Your responsibilities will include building and evolving backend services and infrastructure, developing new features for customers and partners, actively participating in agile processes, delivering high-quality, maintainable, and scalable products, and taking ownership of complex backend features end-to-end.

Our Values
We Win Together
We Raise the Bar
We Keep It Simple
We Build A Legacy
We Care

What we have to offer
A rare opportunity to work in a social impact company where your role has tangible impact. Join an international community of users, partners, and 1,200+ colleagues across 20 countries united by a shared mission. Benefit from personal and professional development in a fast-paced scale-up environment and an inclusive culture where you can bring your authentic self to work. Enjoy a strong, values-driven team culture that celebrates successes and fosters social connections.

Benefits
Flexible hybrid working from office, home, or abroad.
Extra parental leave and additional days off beyond local legislation, with an option for unpaid leave.
Health insurance and pension plans.
Additional days off for significant life events.
Regular social events including summer and winter parties.
Coffee, snacks, and fully-equipped kitchens.
Monthly free Surprise Bag to connect with our community.
Paid volunteer time through our Shareback volunteering programme.
Employee Resource Groups supporting Women in the Workplace, P.R.I.D.E., People of Colour, and Functionally Diverse colleagues.

Experience
- Extensive backend development experience within the Java ecosystem.
- Proven production experience with Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Message Systems, and GIT.
- Experience with Domain Driven Design and Clean or Hexagonal Architecture.
- Knowledge of AWS services including SQS, SNS, S3, ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience developing Restful APIs.
- Demonstrated ability to independently translate ambiguous technical tasks into clean, production-ready code.
- Experience building scalable backend solutions.
- Enjoys active participation in cross-functional product teams.
- Takes pride in writing high-quality code.

About you
You are a supportive mentor and reliable sounding board for mid-level engineers. You thrive in a collaborative environment and take ownership of complex backend challenges. You are motivated by delivering top-class products with maintainability and scalability in mind.

Qualifications
No specific formal qualifications are mandated; however, a strong background in backend Java development and related technologies is essential.