Kitopi is the world’s leading tech-powered multi-brand restaurant. With a mission to satisfy the world’s appetite, Kitopi operates a portfolio of both invested and franchised F&B brands, serving as enablers in the food market by helping brands to grow and scale, both in the delivery and dine-in space. We are a unicorn startup operating globally with roots in Dubai, but the Tech Talent Team is right there in Poland, Kraków. We reached 100 employees and we're growing! 🎉

As a leading food-tech business, Kitopi’s growth has been largely fueled by its innovative and scalable software solutions. Kitopi’s kitchens are powered by its proprietary Smart Kitchen Operating System (SKOS) - an in-house suite of applications that optimizes cloud kitchen operations in real time. As part of its growth roadmap, technological innovation, data science, artificial intelligence, and robotics will take center stage as Kitopi continues to reinvent the food industry as we know it today.

We are looking for engineers with at least 5 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.

Apply if you have: 

• Very good knowledge of:
• Java 8/11(we work with Java 17) 
• SpringBoot
• OOP
• Application integration with REST/JSON and messaging
• Relational and non-relational databases
• Tools and platforms supporting software development (Maven, Gitlab) 
• Methodologies and tools supporting the quality of developed software (tests, code reviews, CI/CD)
• Good communications skills, and experience in an Agile environment

You will be a perfect match for us if you have an understanding of:

• Event-driven architecture
• Confluent Schema Registry
• Kafka
• AWS Cloud
• Docker, Kubernetes
• DDD, Hexagonal Architecture
• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
• Creating highly efficient and scalable solutions
• Diagnosing and solving production environment issues 

Joining Kitopi and working with us means:

Working in the Tech Hub located in Kraków, Poland to help to bring software solutions to a whole new level of experience and reliability. You will be highly engaged at every stage of the development of the solution, starting with drilling down the business requirements with the Product Owner, through implementation and delivery to end up supporting our solution working on prod. 

We expect you to be able to manage your time and priorities on your own and be able to prepare solutions in many small chunks over a period of time. In our teams, communication is crucial and a key factor at every level - you need to have great interpersonal skills and a willingness to share your knowledge - otherwise, it just won’t work.

How do we work?

👉 In small Cross-functional, business-oriented teams

👉 We do Code Reviews

👉 We are Clean Code practitioners

👉 We use Domain-driven design

👉 We use Event storming

👉 We implement Hexagonal architecture

👉 We use Continuous Integration/Deployment

👉 We manage our Infrastructure as Code

Perks & Benefits:

• ESOP - Employee Stock Option Plan 
• You choose a form of employment (Contract of Employment or B2B)
• 26 paid days off on B2B
• Additional paid days off for volunteer activities
• U-Day - time for medical check-ups, examinations, or diagnosis
• Top-notch equipment: high-end MacBook Pro + additional accessories
• Support for your development:
• 2 000 PLN growth annual budget available to every employee 
• internal initiatives: webinars/workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions internal conferences (Kitopi Academy)
• mentoring program 
• Freedom Day - time for things you are passionate about
• free English classes with a native speaker
• Worksmile benefit platform (private medical healthcare, Multisport card, vouchers, etc.) 
• Life insurance 
• Mental health support - free access to online sessions with a professional therapist
• Wellbeing program - tailored to the needs of our employees including physical & mental health, and socializing activities 
• Referral bonus 
• Flextime and Flexplace: adjust your daily schedule to your individual needs
• Great office with fruit & snacks, rented football pitch, social budget for every team & awaydays, and more!

What does the recruitment process look like?

1️⃣ Phone screen with a People Team representative 

2️⃣ Technical screening (ca.60 min)

3️⃣ Live coding (ca. 90 min) 

4️⃣ Bar Raiser interview (30 min culture match)