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And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet. 10% of greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste and loss.\nThrough 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 on 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.\nWe’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 \nIn 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.\nThe Role\nWe are building a brand-new engineering hub in London, and we are looking for a foundational Lead Backend Software Engineer 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.\nYou'll be an integral part of this new product team, so 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.\nAs a senior member of this new team, you will serve as a technical anchor-taking full ownership of complex backend challenges, partnering closely with your Lead Engineer to set high quality standards, and helping guide mid-level engineers as the hub grows.\nThe Tech Stack\nWe 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.\nResponsibilities\nBuild and evolve our backend services and infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth curve.\n\nDevelop exciting new features for our customers and businesses who partner with us.\n\nActively participate in your team’s agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.\n\nStrive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability.\n\nTake on additional tasks outside your current boundaries with help from your team to continue to grow and expand your skills.\n\nTake ownership of complex backend features end-to-end-driving efficient technical design, high test coverage, and smooth deployments in close collaboration with your Lead Engineer.\n\nThe ideal candidate\nA wealth of experience in Backend development with the Java ecosystem.\n\nProven production experience with Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, Message System & GIT.\n\nHas worked with Domain Driven Design, and Clean, or Hexagonal Architecture.\n\nKnowledge of AWS services (SQS, SNS, S3…), ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.\n\nExperience with Restful APIs.\n\nProven ability to break down ambiguous technical tasks into clean, production-ready code independently, while acting as a supportive mentor and reliable sounding board for mid-level engineers.\n\nExperience with building scalable solutions.\n\nEnjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team.\n\nTakes pride in writing quality code.\n\nOur Values\nWe Win Together\n\nWe Raise the Bar\n\nWe Keep It Simple\n\nWe Build A Legacy\n\nWe Care\n\nWhat we have to offer\nA rare opportunity to work in a social impact company where you can see real and tangible impact in your role.\n\nWorking alongside an international community of users, partners and 1,200+ colleagues across 20 countries that are on the same important mission.\n\nPersonal and professional development opportunities in a fast-paced scale-up environment.\n\nAn inclusive company culture where you can bring your authentic self to work\n\nA strong, values-driven team culture where we celebrate successes and socialise with colleagues that care.\n\nBenefits\nWORK FLEXIBLY:\nEnjoy hybrid working from our London office 2 days per week\n\nExtra parental leave and days off beyond local legislation and the option to take an extra week of unpaid leave\n\nHealth insurance and pension plans.\n\nAdditional days off for significant life events\n\nCELEBRATE & SOCIALISE\nRegular social events like summer and winter parties.\n\nCoffee, snacks and fully-equipped kitchens.\n\nGet to know our community with a monthly free Surprise Bag\n\nPaid volunteer time through our Shareback volunteering programme\n\nWomen in the Workplace, P.R.I.D.E., People of Colour and Functionally Diverse Employee Resource Groups\n\nHow to apply\nWe 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.\nSubmit your CV and Cover letter in English.\nPlease note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. 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