Engineering Manager - Restaurant Experience

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive.
If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

👉 Discover life at TheFork

What you will do

• Lead a team of talented engineers that are developing theForkManager (theFork’s Restaurant Management Software) and the B2B Integrations that support it.


• Own day to day execution decisions, delivery on time and maintaining a high bar of quality.


• Optimize the team’s processes to balance velocity with quality and participate in a culture of excellence across the board.


• Co-own roadmap planning with your product and design counterparts.


• Collaborate with different engineering teams on building bigger projects or simply manage dependencies and cobuilding. 


• Participate in the overall tech strategy and management of the B2B Tribe with the other engineering managers, staff engineer and architect. 


• Make sure your team is heard, fully motivated and aligned with the rest of the teams in the tribe and in the engineering department as a whole.


• Hire, mentor and motivate excellent engineering talent. 


• Give constructive feedback, performance reviews and compensation reviews to your team. 


• Participate in aligning engineering with product planning. 

Who you are

• Experienced leader with 3-5+ years of experience as an engineering manager.


• Self motivated, curious and passionate engineer at heart.


• Have an excellent grasp of system design and modern architecture patterns.


• You have excellent knowledge or hands-on experience with technologies like React Native, TypeScript, NodeJS, DataDog and RabbitMQ.


• Exposed to different agile methodologies / shape up and understand deeply how to apply and use them in the right context.


• You have a quality first mentality, can set high standards for your team and participate in mentoring and upskilling the team.


• Someone that has strong product acumen and solid understanding of product principles. Not just from a product development perspective but from the commercial and business side as well. 


• You have good experience with new devtools, AI workflows, and are always curious to experiment with and bring forward new technologies.
  
  
  

What we offer you  

😄 An awesome team (not everybody like our jokes, but we try our best) 

🏠 A Permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 

⚖️ Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week) 

💸 Competitive fixed salary and bonus

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  

🌎 International teams - More than 30 nationalities and 16 offices worldwide 

🏳️‍🌈 Highly inclusive working environment 

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse physical, leisure activities, family support, travel etc 

🎓Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app  

🏥 Health insurance fully covered by the company 

👩‍🦽 Life Insurance and Disability at no cost to the employee  

💗 Welfare allowance school costs, elderly care, babysitting costs, transportation, travel leisure 

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee point on each floor, and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events (we love karaoke. A lot. A lot.) 

If you are the right person and you are thrilled to join TheFork don’t miss this chance and apply.. we are waiting for you!

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

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