Senior Backend Engineer
About Us
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 service of hospitality first. Thousands of restaurants, cafés, bars, and coffee shops across the Netherlands, UK, and more countries soon, love running on Tebi.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build powerful, delightful features that empower restaurant teams. You’ll work across the stack to bring new ideas to life—whether it’s building intuitive interfaces, scalable backend services, or the glue in between that makes everything feel seamless.
You’ll collaborate closely with design, product, and other engineers to rapidly ship impactful features. As an early team member, you’ll also help shape our engineering culture, tooling, and technical direction.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves solving real user problems, and wants to help modernize an underserved industry with thoughtful, elegant software.
Responsibilities
Build, test, and ship end-to-end features across the stack—from APIs to data models
Collaborate with designers and PMs to translate user needs into working, intuitive product experiences
Own projects from concept to launch and beyond, balancing speed, quality, and scalability
Improve system performance and reliability across frontend and backend systems
Help evolve our codebase and technical architecture as we scale
Contribute to shared tooling, component libraries, and best practices that level up the whole team
What you’ll need
8+ years of professional experience as a fullstack or backend engineer in a product-focused environment
Deep expertise in either Kotlin, Java, or Scala.
Significant experience with distributed systems. You know how to build and maintain scalable, resilient services that work together.
Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).
Good experience of relational databases, such as Postgres.
Comfortable working with APIs, relational databases, and docker
A product mindset—you care about the why behind what you’re building and optimizing for user impact
Ability to work collaboratively across functions and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong attention to detail and a sense of pride in crafting great user experiences
Nice to have
Experience working in early-stage startups or small teams
Familiarity with real-time systems or offline-first mobile experiences
Passion for the hospitality space and interest in improving tools for small businesses
Benefits
Start-up Equity
Competitive Salary
Lunch Provided in Office
Team building events
Unlimited time off
Our Values
Build Globally, Execute Locally - We are on a path to evolve an entire industry. We build products globally and we execute our world-class operations locally.
Manifest the Win - Changing the world never comes easy. It takes grit. We are playing a team sport and we know winning is a conscious decision.
Launch fast and iterate - We believe speed and pragmatism wins the day. We operate with an extreme sense of urgency without compromising on quality.
Truth Seeking - We believe in first principles. We get to the heart of a problem and then develop solutions.
Dutch Directness - We operate with sophisticated Dutch directness. Open, respectful, and to the point. We create an environment where anyone can say what needs to be said.
Evolve - We are in a constant state of change and growth. As a business, as individuals. We embrace change.
Owners, not renters - We are all shareholders in Tebi and we act like it. We are drivers, not passengers.
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.