TheFork, part of Tripadvisor group, is the leading online restaurants booking platform in Europe and Australia. We are present in +12 countries with 60 000 partners restaurant in a mission to bringing happiness through amazing dining experiences. Creator of a unique model that has disrupted the restaurant industry, we put innovation at the heart of our ambitious growth.Thanks to TheFork (app/web), millions of diners can easily discover, book and pay the right restaurant at the right price, and thousands of restaurants owners benefits from our solutions to optimise reservation management, streamline operations and ultimately improve service and boost revenue.

Why should you join us?

You are passionate about technology and comfortable in an international and agile environment. You are ready for the challenge of a high volume for millions of users and thousands of restaurants worldwide.

Our technical platform is in constant evolution: we’re industrializing our AWS-hosted microservice architecture and working on the building blocks that enable The Fork’s engineering teams to build a fantastic product.

Job description

As a member of the Architecture team, you are the link between the high-level architectural decisions we take together and the mission teams. The Architecture team belongs to the central Platform domain, and you will work closely with developers, testers and product managers of other domains. You report to the Head of Architecture.

Platform domain is one of the 4 Product & Engineering (P&E) domains which compose TheFork. The other domains are Demand, Supply and Payment. Platform domain is composed of QA, DevOps, SecOps, Architects and 2 dev teams. The Platform domain's main responsibility is to- empower engineers to confidently deliver solutions with quality, performance and scalability- support the technical platform and its scalability

Architects are versatile: you must be at ease solving complex problems by digging into the implementation as well as communicating with people to ensure our organization works well and we deliver high quality products.

The Architecture team also owns some of the building blocks we use to ensure the application of our architectural rules and guidelines. 

You will work on the following subjects :

• Supporting our mission teams in solving complex problems by designing solutions, helping the mission teams to implement them, and ensuring we all move towards our architectural targets

• Discuss enterprise-wide topics, participate in taking decisions, and ensure these decisions are applied.

• You will be a mission-critical information relay by relaying the needs and constraints of the mission teams and also being the voice of the architecture team back down to the mission teams.

• Working with other architects to build our building blocks.

Requirements

• You have a solid technical background in web and cloud technologies (> 10 years). Experience in a fast scaling company, working in the cloud with microservices would certainly be a plus.

• You already have a significant experience as technical lead or architect (>2 years)

• You have strong oral and written skills and know how to adapt your communication to the people you are talking to

• You are rigorous, dynamic & curious, equipped with an agile mindset and a strong team spirit that allow you to adapt to a changing environment

• You are data-driven

• You have experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications

• You are comfortable writing and speaking in both English and French.

TheFork & TripAdvisor Core Values

• Speed wins

• We never stop learning

• Act as an owner

• We are better together

• We love our customers

• We believe in transparency

What do we offer ?

• Being part of hyper growth digital player, headquartered in Paris, with strong international presence and with a winning company culture (balance long-term perspective with accountability, leverage learning & innovation, increase internal cohesion, build a caring environment)

• Attractive salary & bonus based on performance, Restricted Stock Units

• Meet-up & Conferences

• Cool and cosy offices located in the heart of Paris (9eme)

• RTT, flexible hours, home-office

• Fresh fruits delivered everyday

• Ping-pong, "babyfoot", video games, board games, free massage, yoga, cross training and boxe lessons, afterworks, theater courses, global european seminars…