Software Engineer (Early Talent)

Tebi is creating the first Connected Restaurant Management System that makes hospitality flow. In one seamless platform, Tebi embeds sales, reservations, kitchen prep, payments, and all the data that powers it, creating smooth service and intuitive insights.

Founded by Arnout Schuijff, co-founder of Adyen, and backed by €50 million in funding from Index Ventures & CapitalG, Tebi is built in the service of hospitality first. Thousands of restaurants, cafés, bars, and coffee shops across the Netherlands, UK, and more countries, love running on Tebi.

We’re looking for our first Graduate Software Engineers (with a focus on Backend or Mobile) to help us build reliable, easy-to-use features that empower restaurant teams. You’ll join a team of experienced engineers and contribute to backend systems that power everything from financial transactions and payments to kitchen workflows and real-time data!

This role is designed for someone who has just graduated (or is finishing up) is based in the Netherlands and is ready for their first full-time engineering role. You’ll start with well-scoped tasks and plenty of support, pairing with teammates, learning through code reviews, and building confidence in how we write, test, and ship software. You’ll work on real product improvements from day one, get exposure to merchants to understand what matters in practice, and gradually take on more ownership as you grow.

Our Tech Stack: We use Kotlin in both our backend and our mobile App. Everything runs in GCP and our database it’s Postgres.

• As a full member of our team you will learn our codebase and start contributing to backend features with guidance from senior engineers

• Pick up well-scoped tasks, fixing bugs, writing small endpoints, improving existing services, and gradually take on larger pieces of work

• Pair with experienced teammates on code reviews, learning our standards and engineering best practices as you go

• Write clean, readable code and get comfortable with testing, version control, and our deployment workflow

• Join merchants visits to see how restaurants actually use Tebi

• Ask lots of questions, break things (safely), and grow into a confident backend engineer within a supportive team

• A recently completed (or soon-to-be-completed) BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Deep understanding of at least one backend language (e.g., Kotlin, Java, Go, Python)

• Familiarity with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), REST APIs, and basic system design concepts

• Experience building projects, whether through coursework, personal projects, open source, or internships

• A curiosity-driven mindset: you love learning, asking questions, and figuring things out

• Strong communication skills and comfort working in English

If this speaks to you we can be the right fit. Learn more about how we work from our Recipe here: https://www.tebi.com/gb/careers.

• Competitive Salary

• Seven-month contract with the possibility of extension.

• Lunch Provided in Office

• Team building events

What is Restaurant Software?

Restaurants and other merchants use various software systems such as Point of Sale (POS), Reservations, Kitchen Display Systems (KDS), Payments, Inventory, Staffing, and the list goes on. These systems all need to speak to each other which they frequently don’t. It’s a mess, and we are fixing it.

From buying a croissant at a cafe to having dinner with friends, it’s a €4 Trillion+ global market and a critical part of everyday life in today's economy.

How we use AI at Tebi

We use AI the way our merchants use Tebi, to cut out the friction and get to what matters faster. We believe in a world where AI increases quality, efficiency and speed.

At Tebi, AI isn't a policy or a checkbox, it's just part of how we work. It helps us write, analyse, build, and improve but doesn’t make the last call. If there's a smarter way to do something, we want to find it.