Junior Backend Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

“To be the most loved everyday food and groceries destination!” - that’s our mission at foodpanda (small ‘f’).

foodpanda is the largest food and grocery delivery platform in Asia, outside of China. Operating in more than 400 cities across 11 markets, we continue to expand and grow in our core food delivery business, as well as in new verticals like grocery deliveries, with a strong tech infrastructure at our core. From our restaurants-partners, cloud kitchens and cloud grocery stores — foodpanda is just one tap away, getting everything you need into your hands quickly and conveniently!

If you love working with technology to create solutions and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get things done, you will find your tribe here at foodpanda. foodpanda comprises of people from more than 60 nationalities, and we believe in winning through diversity.
foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic Junior Backend Engineer to provide a quick and satisfactory service at our agents' fingertips tailored to the local challenges to resolve our customer issues. The Agent Platform global team develops solutions for service agents across all DeliveryHero brands including foodpanda to serve a holistic group of users which includes customers, vendors and riders.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and implementing the features which will be used across the global platform.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables within autonomous teams.
  • Contributing to designing and evolving the system architecture to meet current needs and support future growth and technologies.
  • Enforcing coding standards and conducting thorough code reviews to maintain high-quality codebase. Implement automated testing frameworks to catch bugs early and ensure software reliability.
  • Work in a cross-functional and international team to deliver a holistic solution.
  • Good understanding and independent application of cloud environment, CI/CD, testing and validation.
  • Independently applies design patterns and best practices in reliability management (resiliency, autoscaling, monitoring, alerting).
  • Identifying and resolving complex technical issues in software and infrastructure, continuously optimising for performance and scalability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education or practical experience.
  • Overall 2-3 years of experience with some proficiency in Golang is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with with Design Patterns, Design Principles, Software Architecture and Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional).
  • Understanding of microservices architecture and patterns, which is beneficial for designing scalable and maintainable systems would be a plus.
  • Good knowledge of relational & distributed databases (You should be aware of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, index anatomy & concepts of distributed databases).
  • Understanding development lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional and international agile teams.
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team and collaborate with stakeholders across various disciplines.

Additional Information

What we offer:

  • A dynamic and challenging work environment.
  • A company committed to developing you personally and professionally.
  • A great working atmosphere with regular company and team events.
  • A vibrant and international team committed to diversity and inclusion.
  • Responsibility from day one in a fast growing and global company.
  • Other benefits include free food, health and dental insurance, and learning and development opportunities!

Our parent company, Delivery Hero, is a global leader in the food delivery industry processing over 3 million orders every day and operating in 40+ markets in the world, with 18,000 employees and approximately 500,000+ restaurant partners.

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