Software Engineer (Backend)

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.

40% of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste. 

We’re more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Technologies offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.

We’re growing fast: Our community of 133 million registered users and 261,000 active partners across 21 countries, have together already prevented 517+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 1.397.000 tonnes of CO2e!

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer - Java Backend, to be a part of our Partner Value Proposition Product Team that defines, builds and delivers our product features. As a Team Member in a product team, you will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best way to achieve them together with the other Engineers and other Product Team members.

Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver and maintain various product features. 

Your task will be to develop, build and deliver an international top-class product, ensuring quality, maintainability, and sustainability. Supported by more experienced colleagues who will guide, train and encourage you to push limits, and improve. We want to be proud of our work and focus more on quality than deadlines.

The Tech Stack

We have created a scalable Spring Boot 3 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our backend services and infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth curve.
• Develop exciting new features to make the developer experience better for you and other backend engineers.
• Actively participate in your team’s agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Strive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability.
• Take on additional tasks outside your current boundaries with help from your team to continue to grow and expand your skills.

The ideal candidate

• A wealth of experience in Backend development with the Java ecosystem.
• Proven production experience with Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, Message Systems & GIT.
• Has worked with Domain Driven Design, and Clean, or Hexagonal- Architecture.
• Knowledge of AWS services (SQS, SNS, S3…), ElasticSearch, Redis, GitHub Actions, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with building scalable solutions.
• Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team.
• Takes pride in writing quality code.
• Experience with JUnit and writing tests
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development and openness to adopting new tools and workflows that enhance productivity and software quality.

Our values

• We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We can do it if we win together as Waste Warriors with no ego. We believe in a #oneteam.
• We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.
• We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.
• We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving. 
• We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.

What We Have To Offer

• An opportunity to work in a global social-impact company and certified B Corporation! where you can see a real and tangible impact in your role.
• To be an integral member of our defined product teams. We are eager for you to make an impact and contribute to the product scope and development; Your insights are valuable, and we are here to listen.
• Work-life balance is important to us! Focus on the job to be done, not the hours spent, there is no need for overtime.  On-call duty is not part of the job, but can be additionally agreed upon should you and your manager both wish it. We believe in happy environments create happy employees. 
• We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that provides several opportunities for employees to contribute, develop and take ownership of their work in a way that works for them.
• To be part of an international company, with over 1,200+ colleagues across 17 countries that are on the same important mission.
• An informal environment, working alongside a tech team of over 90 passionate people, we celebrate our differences and our successes and have a strong values-driven team culture.

How to apply

• We 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.
• Submit your CV in English.
• Please note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. No CV will be accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging.

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A Movement for EveryoneWe want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it’s only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we’re allowed to be ourselves, and we’re committed to a culture where all of us belong.We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.