We are a growing company, and we all love a challenge. We need you to keep improving the daily life of restaurateurs.
We’re Haddock — building the financial OS for restaurants across Europe. We're looking for a backend engineer who wants to own core functionalities, roll out new integrations, shape our infrastructure, and push the boundaries of reliability and scalability.
This isn’t just another backend role — it’s your chance to lead a mission-critical area of our platform from day one.
What you’ll own
You’ll be the technical lead of many backend-oriented initiatives, from our integrations to our core product that powers restaurant owners — architecting, scaling, and operating the backend systems that support Haddock’s growth. Your work will directly impact how restaurants connect their systems and manage their business. You’ll :
- Design and implement solutions, including data structures and microservices, to new integrations with external providers and services.
- Extend and maintain connectors with an eye toward robustness and reuse.
- Drive infrastructure improvements for scalability, observability, and security.
- Collaborate with the team on architecture and deployment.
- Set standards for integration quality, reliability, and performance.
What we’re looking for
Startup growth mindset — experience working at growing startups and tech companies, learning from their challenges.Product-oriented — empathy with users (e.g., restaurants), prioritizing impactful work, and clear cross-team communication.Backend focus — strong skills in server-side development (TypeScript / Node.js, Python, Go, etc.) and database modeling.Infrastructure expertise — experience managing services in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure), Docker, CI / CD, monitoring, and logging.Integration know-how — comfortable with REST APIs, webhooks, and async patterns (message queues, retries).Ownership mentality — proactive, resourceful, and comfortable leading technical decisions.Experience — 5+ years building and operating backend systems at scale.Languages — fluency in Spanish and comfortable with English (projects and incidents are written in English, and we work with some international clients).Extras we love
Experience working with POS systems, in the restaurant / HORECA sector, or with accounting software.Experience implementing performant database queries.Familiarity with domain-driven design or microservices.Background in incident response, SRE practices, or service-level objectives.Why you'll love it
Ownership from day one — lead this mission-critical area as we expand.Fast-growing impact — integrations are core to scaling Haddock into new markets.Cross-functional influence — collaborate with product, customer success, and engineering teams to shape flow and experience.Career growth — influence team practices, mentorship opportunities, and future technical strategy.Great package — €45–50k gross / year, hybrid remote, Urban Sports Club, snacks, Payflow, central office near La Pedrera.Our process
We move fast (1 week!) while keeping it friendly and respectful :
Intro call (~30 min) with a co-founder.Technical interviews (~2 hr) — deep dive into integration and infrastructure design + live backend / infrastructure task.#J-18808-Ljbffr