Backend Engineer

Kitopi is the world���s leading managed cloud kitchen platform – we partner with restaurants and food concepts to help them expand beyond borders. Founded in 2018, our mission is to satisfy the world���s appetite and we currently work with over 150 brands.Kitopi (pronounced: ���Kee-Toh-Pee���) stands for Kitchen Utopia. We serve as enablers to our brand partners in the food market by providing services centered around (but not limited to) sourcing, preparing, producing, and packaging – working closely with our delivery partners to help deliver exceptional food, on our customer���s terms. We are able to achieve this with our in-built, pioneering cloud kitchen technology – a first-of-its-kind innovation.Our services have also expanded beyond the kitchen to include subscription-based meal plans, and a first-of-its-kind on-demand food court concept Mix ���N��� Match . Kitopi currently operates more than 80 kitchens across the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, and Bahrain, thanks to more than 3000 amazing Kitopians.And we can���t wait for you to join us.We are creating a software solution to take care of the whole food ordering journey: from the moment when a customer places an order, through the food preparation and packing process in our kitchens, up to the moment when the delivery boy rings the bell at your door with a first-class meal.We are looking for engineers with at least 2 years of experience with commercial software development in the Java ecosystem at the same time understanding the business needs, to be able to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems.What Are We Looking For?Ability to write clean code based on OOP and JavaGood knowledge of at least one database (SQL or NoSQL)Knowledge of RESTExperience with working with GITAbility to test code (and write code based on TDD/BDD) “Software Craftsman” approachGood communications skillsExperience in an Agile environmentYou will be a perfect match if you know/have an understanding of:Spring BootKafka, Confluent Schema RegistryDocker, KubernetesAWS CloudPostgreSQL, MongoDB and ElasticSearchDDD, Hexagonal ArchitectureSo, what does it really mean to work at Kitopi?We are constantly striving to make Kitopi the best place to work, in the world. We want to empower you to be the best version of yourself every single day – we wouldn���t have it any other way. Our Kitopi values act as our guiding principles to help ensure that everyone feels safe, included, and that they belong.While we have offices in 6 countries, we are over 75 different nationalities of talented Kitopians. We celebrate our rich diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures and have a 0 tolerance policy against racism, bigotry, and hate.Along with offices in all the markets we operate in, we also believe in a ���work from anywhere��� policy – you get to choose the environment you want to work in the countries your role is based because we believe that will help you deliver work you���re proud of.Tech-enabled and customer-obsessed, at Kitopi, we are a team of passionate humans who are on a mission together to satisfy the world���s appetite.