Position: Backend Tech Lead | NodeJS / GraphQL / AWS / Serverless (BERLIN)
Company: Choco
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Who we are

If you are looking to have an impact on the world, then read carefully because at Choco, we are moving mountains to transition the world’s food systems to become more sustainable. The food industry is an industry with essential problems, especially in food-supply-chain. We leverage technology to build the digital platform on which the global food trade will operate. We have the potential to reduce food prices, decrease food waste by 30%.

In 2018 we entered the market with our chat-based ordering app and had drastically changed the way businesses work and order with their suppliers. Our founders have helped build companies such as Zalando (IPO’d), Lazada (sold to Alibaba) and Foodora (sold to DeliveryHero). We recently raised one of the largest Series A funding rounds in European history. 

Technology is at the core of our work. We are product-minded builders, architects, coders, bug-hunters and designers. We deliver the needed change via our mobile and web apps using cutting-edge tools, modern engineering practices and always keeping software quality on our radar. Of course, it’s not only about working with top-notch tools but keep hiring excellent engineers too.

Join us in leading the world’s transition to sustainable food systems.



What you will do

Here at Choco, we like to use the space shuttle as a metaphor for our engineering work. Now, you will join and help us bring the shuttle to the moon. With our mission to reduce food waste globally we are building a solution that automates the ordering (supplies) for restaurants. Your main objective will be to integrate our platform with suppliers using GraphQL, RestAPI and also some custom made integrations. You will lead & manage the backend developers, QA in your team but also work closely with the customer facing solutions engineers, while also interacting with DevOps, product managers and developers from other squads.
- You will contribute to the Infrastructure technical planning and roadmap, defining key projects and helping the team to stay on track.
- Contribute significantly to the core TypeScript code-base of the Platform and review the code of others.
- Actively mentor and educate other backend developers across engineering.
- Work together with cross-functional feature teams. Educate and enable frontend, backend, mobile and QA engineering areas about infrastructure, scaling and architecture.
- Drive and deliver complex long-term, large-scale, cross-team projects and contribute to the technical strategy.
- Operate and maintain the services your team owns in order to meet our user's expectations.
- Actively take part in interviewing and hiring top engineers for your own and other teams

Our tech stack: We have a cutting-edge environment and use NodeJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB and our infrastructure is powered by AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline and AWS S3.

What you will need to have an impact with us
- Strong backend and infrastructure technical excellence and at least 7+ years of experience in the field
- Experience in designing and building complex microservices, event-driven architecture, integrations and most importantly developing APIs with GraphQL and RestAPIs as well as understanding of different integration technologies like smtp.
- Very competent in producing clean and maintainable code in backend JavaScript / TypeScript with NodeJS
- Proven experience in building resilient and scalable cloud infrastructure with AWS, following modern DevOps/SRE practices
- Very strong knowledge in system designs and software architectures
- Ability to drive and deliver large features and projects spanning across multiple sprints with significant business impact
- Strong communication skills combined with influence and eagerness to share and develop others