🍔 What is Taster?

Our vision is to revolutionise quick-service restaurants worldwide by crafting mouthwatering, iconic brands with top creators and then distributing them through next-generation franchise networks supercharged by Technology and innovation.

Taster is at the forefront of the food delivery revolution in Europe, bringing the franchise model to the digital age with leading delivery-first brands, best-in-class technology, and an asset-light business model leveraging established delivery platforms and supply partners.

This approach ensures we deliver high-quality food experiences designed specifically for delivery — without compromise.

With a highly scalable model and strong unit economics, Taster is profitable. Backed by Tier-1 investors (Octopus Ventures, Local Globe, Heartcore Capital, Rakuten, Battery Ventures), we operate in a market expected to reach $365bn by 2030.

🧭 Why are we hiring?

At Taster, we’re building the technology layer powering the restaurants of tomorrow.

Our backend systems are at the core of everything we do — from order orchestration across multiple delivery platforms, to powering internal tools, data pipelines, and real-time decision-making systems.

As we scale, we’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen our backend team and help us build robust, scalable, and intelligent systems.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the architecture, enabling product velocity, and integrating AI-powered capabilities into our platform.

🤝 What will you do?

Taster’s proprietary tech stack is the backbone of a composed architecture of home made application and External Software as a service. Our products range from multi-platform order ingestion to Click & Collect, internal tooling, and invoicing capabilities.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

Product & Delivery

• Own complex backend features end-to-end, from design to deployment and iteration

• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and operations teams

• Design and build scalable APIs and services powering customer-facing and internal tools

• Ensure reliability and performance of critical systems (ordering, payments, operations)

System Design & Engineering Excellence

• Design robust, scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform

• Improve system reliability, observability, and performance

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Lead technical discussions and contribute to architecture decisions and best practices

• Continuously improve CI/CD, monitoring, and system resilience

AI & Innovation

• Evaluate when to leverage LLMs vs traditional coding approaches depending on reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability

• At Taster, we use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted environments to accelerate development when relevant

• Make pragmatic decisions on build vs prompt vs hybrid architectures

• Contribute to defining best practices around AI-assisted engineering within the team

Mentorship & Impact

• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing

• Raise the bar on backend quality, performance, and scalability

• Take ownership of technical topics and drive improvements across the backend stack

• Contribute to a culture of autonomy, ownership, and continuous improvement

🛠️ Our stack

• Python

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Monitoring: Sentry, logging, observability tools

Why us?

🚀 Join a profitable, fast-growing foodtech startup with real scale challenges
👨‍💻 Work within a lean, high-impact tech team where your work directly shapes the product
🌍 Be part of an international team across Paris & London

⭐ Our office is in the heart of Paris, surrounded by great food (of course)
🤍 A humble, supportive team that genuinely enjoys working together
📈 A culture built around Quality, Innovation & Community

✅ What are we looking for?

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in backend development

• Strong experience with Python (FastAPI or similar frameworks)

• Experience designing scalable distributed systems

Technical Skills

• Solid experience with GCP (or similar cloud platforms)

• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and asynchronous systems

• Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, and system reliability

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures is a plus

AI & Modern Tooling

• Experience coding with LLM-assisted tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)

• Interest in integrating AI into backend systems and workflows

• Ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity and system capabilities

Mindset

• Autonomy & Ownership: Able to drive projects independently end-to-end

• Collaboration: Comfortable working cross-functionally

• Product ownership mindset: Acts as a product builder, not just an implementer, challenges requirements, understands user and business impact, and takes responsibility for delivering the right solution

🌍 Language requirements

• Fluent in English

• Fluent in French