Developer

About the company

The company was founded in London in 2013 to help the hospitality industry prevent food waste through internet of things tools in the kitchen. We have worked with hundreds of sites and are operating in over 70 countries around the world supported by our offices in London, Dubai, Singapore, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Chicago. We are a rapidly growing company with a strong base of clients who are rolling out our system globally. We have blue-chip customers including Accor Hotels, IKEA, IHG, Marriott, Compass Group and many others.

 
About the role

Our team is responsible for building tools used by our customers and our teams to manage the food waste tracking activities, and present high-quality, clear, actionable insights about what is wasted and how can it be reduced.

Developing such a product involves many different concerns and teams: creating solutions that work well in a busy kitchen environment, scalable and flexible cloud systems, managing large amounts of data, and exposing it to customers.

We are looking for a talented software engineer to join our team and help us in this mission. With front-line exposure to our systems, you will have the opportunity to expand / enrich your knowledge in this exciting and cutting edge arena.

We use a wide variety of technologies to solve the complex problems we are facing. Our favourite candidates are developers that follow best practices in any programming language, who use the best tool for the job and can adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

Key responsibilities

This role will sit within our Hub or Insights development teams, working on internal and customer facing tooling and analytical applications.

You will be expected to be involved with all aspects of software delivery:

• Creating technical designs
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Implementing automated tests
• Developing CI/CD pipelines
• Deploying, monitoring, and maintaining the production system
You will be working as part of a best in class product and engineering team, delivering cutting edge software solutions.

Our Technology

Our current technology stack is outlined below:

• Java 17
• Spring Boot, Apache Camel
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS Redshift
• VueJS 3
• REST APIs
• Microservice-style, event-driven cloud architecture
• Kafka, MQTT
• Docker for both our cloud and edge-device applications
• AWS
• IoT ‘smart’ edge devices (nVidia embedded GPUs)
• Linux-based embedded OS on our Edge devices
• Continuous Integration and Delivery using Jenkins, SonarQube
• Terraform, Kubernetes, NewRelic for infrastructure management
• In the company we also use: Go, Python, Android apps (Kotlin), Grafana, Pentaho / Saiku, React Native, Serverless functions

Requirements

• You should have 4+ years of experience and a good understanding of the Java programming language and developing webservices which you will have gained in your professional working career
• You have a deep understanding and good experience of relational databases and SQL queries (ideally PostgreSQL)
• Your primary focus will be developing our server-side software (mostly Java using Kafka or REST APIs) but able to help out with other technologies (e.g. Python, Go) when necessary
• You should be comfortable with using Linux terminal environments
• Understanding of programming (not just using frameworks, extensions and plugins but understanding what they do, how they work and if needed build/extend them)
• Understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Unit and Integration Testing
• Experience working with tools like JIRA and Confluence
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies
• Experience with the development of a major project/product hosted in AWS is a plus
• Having interest to learn and work with other tools and languages, such as Python (preferred) and Go is a plus
• Using Jenkins as the CI tool is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive base salary 
• Meal tickets - 35 RON per working day
• 2 Wellness hours per month plus a 274 RON gross monthly wellness allowance or the option to swap the wellness allowance for a 7Card subscription 
• 25 days of paid vacation time in addition to national holidays, plus the option to buy a further 5 days annual leave 
• Company part-funded private health insurance and eye care allowance
• Life insurance (3 times base salary) 
• Company stock options package 
• Eligible for discretionary annual bonus
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 helpline for your wellbeing
• Learning and development allowance of 1,730 RON annually 
• Hybrid way of working - we’re all in the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays
• Company provided breakfast & snacks on office days
• Early Finish Fridays - log off at 3 PM on a Friday if you have completed your tasks by then
• Our own office space with a great working environment 
• You will love what you do – waking up every day solving one of the biggest social problems of our generation - food waste
• Committed team members with broad experience who share a common passion to build a world class business.

Don't worry if you don't check all the boxes – a keen attitude to learn makes a difference! :)
Apply here or contact us at adriana@thecoders.ro if you have questions.