At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.
More than 40% of all food produced in the world is wasted and retailers lose between 1-3% of their annual sales due to food waste. All of this waste has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste.
The Retail Technologies teams at Too Good To Go are working on our new software solution, the Too Good To Go Platform, used directly by Retailers to track and redistribute surplus food seamlessly. This B2B app, connected to our consumer marketplace, helps stores better manage expiry dates by; detecting products that are about to expire, recommending what to do with them, and facilitating their redistribution (via discounting for in-store customers, donations to charities, or sales on the marketplace). This business app is already used by tens of thousands of store employees every day, and soon to be hundreds of thousands by the end of the year in several countries.
We’re more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Technologies offering -, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.
We are growing fast, with a community of 108 million users in 19 countries. Together, we have saved more than 395 million meals from going to waste since we started - but there’s still a lot more we want to achieve.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to be a part of our Product Teams that define, build and deliver our product features. Working in a product team means you will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best route to achieve them together with the other Engineers and Product members of the Team.
Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver and maintain various product features. You will be one of several developers, working as part of a multidisciplinary team and will bring your knowledge and expertise to the table.
As a Senior you will actively support your engineering lead in delivering a quality, maintainable and international top-class product, whilst being a role model for less-senior team members, by taking responsibility for problems and using your expertise to identify the right solutions.
The Tech Stack
We have an Android App written in Kotlin using a MVVM Design Pattern. A lot of our UI is written in Jetpack Compose.
Some of the libraries we use :
- Room
- Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
- Retrofit
- Glide
- Koin
Our CI/CD runs on GitHub actions and includes Unit and UI Tests, lint checks with Detekt and automatic build.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features, whilst maintaining and improving existing code for the Retail Technologies Solution.
- Release new versions and continuously monitor app performance and detect areas for improvement
- Keeping user experience at the forefront of your work, at all times
- Strive to deliver top-class international products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability
- Participate in mentoring, and coaching whilst actively giving and encouraging regular feedback with those around you.
- Be responsible by acting as an owner for problems which may arise, unless agreed upon by others, we will count on you to look at the bigger picture, even if this may fall outside of your usual day-to-day.
- Deliver on commitments and be accountable. This is your chance to #buildalegacy.
- Continually improve our ways of working
The Ideal candidate
- Experience as an Android Developer at a senior level
- Deep knowledge of the Android SDK and most standard libraries
- Proficiency in programming in Java, Kotlin or Both.
- Natural ability to identify great solutions to ever-arising challenges, and act on them in a timely manner
- Proactive mindset and ability to work well in a team environment
- Experience with building scalable solutions.
- Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team.
- Takes pride in writing quality code.
- Preferably experience with REST API calls
- Relevant degree in software engineering
What we offer
- An opportunity to have a huge impact, knowing what you help design will be used daily by hundreds of thousands of store employees daily, enabling them to save millions of food items per day.
- A rare opportunity to work in a global social impact company (and certified B Corp!) where you can see a real and tangible impact in your role.
- An autonomous environment, with several opportunities to contribute, build on experience and take ownership of your work in a way that works for you.
- A nice bunch of colleagues in the Paris office 🙂 (~100+ people) and beyond them 1,300+ colleagues across 19 countries that are on the same important mission.
- Opportunity to influence our product, design and ways of working, every day.
- An informal atmosphere, with a strong, values-driven team culture where we celebrate successes and socialise with colleagues that care to offer.
- Relative flexibility at work (we work weekly onsite on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday), and several employees benefits
Our values
- We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We can do it if we win together as Waste Warriors with no ego. We believe in a #oneteam.
- We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.
- We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.
- We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving.
- We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.
How to apply
- We take recruitment very seriously, so please carefully read everything we have written above. Please also check our website and international media in order to get a good overview of Too Good To Go.
- Submit your CV and Cover letter in English.
- Please note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. No CV or Cover Letter will be accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging.
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A Movement for Everyone
We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it’s only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we’re allowed to be ourselves, and we’re committed to a culture where all of us belong.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
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What We Do
We are a B Corp certified, social impact company fighting food waste around the world. It's important because the food we waste accounts for 8-10% of all CO2e emissions.
We're best known for our app, which is the world's largest B2C marketplace for surplus food. Here, restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, bakeries, canteens and wholesalers in 15 countries prevent their surplus from going to waste by connecting with our millions of users.
Here's what the World Economic Forum has to say about us: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/app-leftovers-fight-food-waste-togoodtogo/
We're also featured as a Europe-wide solution by Zero Waste Europe: https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/the-story-of-too-good-to-go/
Food waste is a global challenge in need of many solutions, and we run projects with businesses, households, schools and public affairs to create real, tangible impact.
We are always on the look out for talented and like-minded individuals so if you're up for the challenge, check out our open positions at https://toogoodtogo.org/en/careers/opportunities
