To solve one of the largest problems of our generation we need to get the world’s best talent.

We are on a mission to enable the global food system to become sustainable. Our technology is enabling thousands of restaurants, wholesalers, and producers across 7 countries to operate waste-free and efficiently already today. Yet, this is a drop into the ocean. We just started. Our goal to connect the global food system is extremely ambitious and complex. A problem of this magnitude and complexity requires a massive scale and only the best people will be able to solve it. We are gathering the best people globally together in order to succeed in our mission. Are you in?

For us, it is always team-first.  Teams in which everyone subordinates their individual success to the team's success will win against teams that don't. Can you put your ego aside?

We are looking for the hungry underdogs that will rather fail than not try. We look for humility because it makes us learn faster. And we look for people who understand that hard work is necessary and that shortcuts don’t exist. We are playing the long game and want to build a truly generational company.

Our mission requires us to be fast. We believe that urgency is a mindset. We look for people who act with speed in everything they do, yet never lose sight of the bigger picture.

Fun plays an important role. We want to succeed and celebrate when we do. It is important to us that our people form real bonds in and outside of work.

We have no small plans, we are assembling a championship team, with people that take real ownership of our company’s long-term success. If you feel this is for you, then deep inside you, you might be already one of us.

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The Platform team at Choco makes sure that our product teams have everything they need to be successful.

Our cross-functional teams implement business critical product features across our mobile and web clients and operate their own services. The platform team makes sure that they have the best possible foundation to build these on and takes care of all the other things that need to be in place.

Platform has significant autonomy and a big responsibility to execute on projects that are necessary for Choco's scalability, reliability and developer experience. A lot of the time, that means working on topics that affect everybody in the engineering organisation and building things that take more than a couple of sprint cycles to start delivering value. Because of this we as the platform team have to sweat the details and make sure we build the right thing.

We are looking for somebody with considerable experience, skill and judgement who understands these trade-offs and would like to work with us in this high ownership environment.

Our working model reflects a balance between the highly collaborative nature of our business and modern-day flexibility. As a part of our Product Engineering team, we look forward to seeing you in our Berlin office at least 3 days a week.On a daily basis, you will: 

• Lead on the implementation of new APIs and frameworks that will be used by all of engineering

• Architect scalable solutions for Choco’s systems integration, data and AI use cases

• Ensure that our engineers have a great developer experience

•  Collaborate with backend engineers to unblock them and help them ship value to our users

• Evangelize Choco’s platform vision to team leads and the organization

Our tech stack in Backend EngineeringWe have a cutting-edge environment and use NodeJS and TypeScript in combination with NestJS framework, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB and PostgresQL. Our infrastructure is powered by various AWS serverless technologies such as SNS,SQS,Lambda, and AppSync.. We are also actively investing in our containerized architecture with EKS (Kubernetes).  For infrastructure management we use AWS CDK and Helm.

What you will need to have an impact with us:

• Experience with Typescript

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer

• Experience with microservices and event-driven distributed systems

• Experience operating and monitoring software at scale

• Experience with the internals of framework and API design (either custom or open source)

• Proven ability to get things done independently

• Proven ability to create productive relationships with other engineers to teach, learn, generate buy-in and ship

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to create clarity and scale both your and the team's impact

You will impress us even more if you have

• Experience with Nest.js or other frameworks (Laravel, Spring Boot etc.)

• Open source contributions

• Experience with reliability engineering and on-call

• Experience in developer relations, management or other areas outside of pure software engineering

• Experience with large scale migrations and architectural evolution

• Interest in monorepo-scale code organization, dependency management and continuous delivery

We invite you to take part in the following selection process:

• Introduction call: a Tech Recruiter will tell you more about Choco, our Tech Org and get to know your work, background, interests and you as a person better.

• Hiring Manager interview: You will meet your potential manager and discuss the mission, challenges and goals of the team. We would like to see how you collaborate on building the most amazing product for your customers

• Pair Programming Interview: during this stage we want to get deeper into your technical knowledge. Next to some technical questions you will work together with another engineer in a pair programming exercise.

• System Design Interview: Together with our engineers you will do a system design exercise to test your skills (whiteboard session).

• Culture interview: You will meet other engineering leaders to discuss about the Choco culture and your non-technical contribution to Choco

Choco was founded in Berlin in 2018 and has since expanded to a team of over 400 committed Chocorians working from Choco offices in the US, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the UK, and Spain. Our ordering app is used by over 15K buyers and over 10K suppliers around the globe - processing hundreds of thousands of tons of food every month.

We raised over $280mn from some of the world’s best investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Coatue Management, and LeftLane Capital. We are the first unicorn to reduce food waste.

We’re working alongside those who built companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Rocket Internet, and more.

Choco is an equal-opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to ensuring that our technology is available and accessible to everyone. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.