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EatClub is Australia's #1 Food & Drink app and a 200+ person scaleup helping over 4 million customers discover restaurants and access real-time deals (up to 50% off), while empowering 8,000+ venues to fill tables and maximize revenue. The company was co-founded by Marco Pierre White and food tech leaders, and was awarded Australia's Fastest Growing Tech Company by the AFR in 2025.
As a Backend Engineer, you will build the systems powering the experiences restaurants and diners see daily. You'll work in Java on serverless AWS, designing APIs and shipping features end-to-end with product, frontend, and engineering teammates. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership and variety—one week shaping a new feature, the next tracking down a performance problem.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and building scalable backend services in Java
- Developing and maintaining serverless APIs, building and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs
- Taking features from idea to production, collaborating with product and frontend teams
- Improving performance, reliability, and scalability of systems
- Debugging and resolving technical issues at root cause
- Writing automated tests and keeping code easy to test and change
- Reviewing code and mentoring teammates
Projects include building features to help restaurants fill tables and diners find deals, extending GraphQL and REST APIs as products grow, tuning database queries and service performance at scale, improving monitoring and deployment of serverless services, and modernizing architecture.
The ideal candidate is proactive, a finisher who takes features to production, product-minded, collaborative, and curious. You spot what needs doing and get on with it; you care about why you're building something and who it's for; you work easily with cross-functional teams and communicate clearly.
Requirements:
- 3–5 years of commercial experience as a Java developer
- Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
- Strong Java backend skills and solid grounding in software development principles
- Experience building serverless APIs
- Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs
- Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
- Performance tuning and debugging experience
- Habit of writing automated tests and testable code
- Familiarity with modern architectures and design patterns
- Comfort with Git
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Full working rights in Australia
Nice-to-have:
- Experience with AWS (S3, AppSync, API Gateway, Lambda, etc.)
- Experience building or working with CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in food, restaurants, and dining
