Software Engineering Manager -B2C Tribe

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 favourite 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

In Italy, this position offers a gross TTC annual salary range of 72 000 and 77 000 €, in line with the collective bargaining agreement and the company compensation philosophy. The final offer will reflect the candidate’s experience, qualifications and the specific responsibilities of the role.

What You Will Do

• Lead a distributed team of 7+ talented engineers who are taking care of the B2C TheFork products (website and mobile apps)
• Own day-to-day execution decisions, delivery on time and maintaining a high bar of quality.
• Optimise the team’s processes to balance velocity and quality and promote a culture of excellence.
• Co-own roadmap planning with your product and design counterparts.
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver large-scale initiatives, managing dependencies and ensuring seamless collaboration.
• Participate in the overall tech strategy and management of the B2C Tribe with other engineering managers, staff engineers, and architects.
• 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 engineering talent.
• Give constructive feedback, performance reviews and compensation reviews to your team.
• Leverage AI to enhance everyday engineering work by accelerating development, improving code quality, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling smarter decision-making

You will report directly to the B2C Head of Engineering, and you will peer up with the other engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

Who You Are

• You have already coached and mentored 5+ people teams, including senior software engineers, for at least 3 years.
• You have experience leading a high-performing technical team in a distributed environment.
• Self-motivated, curious and passionate engineer at heart.
• Have an excellent grasp of system design and modern architecture patterns.
• You have knowledge or hands-on experience with technologies like React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Kotlin/Swift, and RabbitMQ.
• Exposed to different agile methodologies 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 who has strong product acumen and a solid understanding of product principles.
• You have good experience with dev tools and AI workflows, and are always curious to experiment with and bring forward new technologies.
• You are very comfortable writing and speaking constantly in English.

What We Offer You

An awesome team

A permanent contract

⚖️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

Competitive fixed salary and bonus

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

International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

Highly inclusive working environment

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

Continuous learning and development programs

Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

Health insurance

Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

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

Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area

Team building events

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.

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 Visualizzare la mail su trk.iohire.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.