Backend Engineer

At Deliverect, our API-first platform is revolutionizing commerce by providing a connected suite of on and off-premise solutions. We empower both the food and retail industries to expand their revenue and simplify their operations, creating seamless experiences for businesses to sell anywhere and deliver everywhere. Join us in this exciting journey, where your contributions will directly impact how businesses connect with their customers in a rapidly evolving global market.

Department Focus:

The Product Department at Deliverect is at the forefront of the digital ordering revolution, dedicated to consistently delivering groundbreaking solutions to the global marketplace. Our team of passionate and innovative engineers, designers, and product managers architect tools that empower businesses to thrive in the evolving digital landscape, streamlining digital ordering for delivery and on-premise services. We are committed to creating user-friendly, dependable, and scalable technology that simplifies operations and enhances customer experiences, playing an integral role in the success of businesses worldwide. In our department, innovation is not just a concept; it's the driving force behind everything we do.

As a Backend Developer at Deliverect, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining the core services that power our platform. You will help build and scale the backend systems that streamline order management and enable seamless integrations for our customers. Your work will directly contribute to the stability and performance of our platform, ensuring a reliable experience for thousands of restaurants worldwide.

*This is a full-time, hybrid role with a flexible work schedule, offering 3 days in our Ghent or Casablanca office and 2 days from the comfort of your home.

What you will do:

• Building API integrations for leading national and global POS systems and delivery apps
• Being inventive with the huge amount of data we process and designing algorithms for generating reports with millions of products and orders.
• Creating Machine to Machine (M2M) Authorization
• Anticipating performance problems and preventing them ahead of time by thinking at scale
• Building core product features that improve our application
• Mentoring other developers and guiding them in their work
• Participating in code reviews
• Writing unit and integration tests to ensure coverage
• Supporting other teams and communicating effectively with them on a daily basis
• Working closely with product owners, customer success and technical account

managers to understand problems and design solutions

• Helping to choose new technologies and frameworks to tackle problems
• You might even be in touch with customers directly, as you are keen to hear where we

can improve

What you will bring:

• You have 5+ years of experience using Python in a web context (we use Flask and Eve as our backend framework). We will consider other languages (like Ruby) if you are willing to learn quickly.
• You have experience with building Web/REST APIs
• Experience with a variety of API standards (REST, JSON-RPC, SOAP/XML)
• Experience with Git and the CLI
• Experience with API clients like Postman or Insomnia
• You are familiar with SaaS products or working on a product with frequent releases within a rapidly scaling global company
• Knowledge of databases, especially NoSQL (ideally MongoDB)
• Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes in a cloud environment
• You have worked with a TDD approach before
• Experience with testing