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About the Role

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking a Backend Engineer - Consultant to join the ShareTheMeal initiative. This role involves developing features and improvements for the ShareTheMeal platform, collaborating with stakeholders, and solving complex technical problems to support WFP's mission of achieving zero hunger.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the ShareTheMeal node.js based platform in a secure, well-tested and performant way.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Contribute to objectives and long-term goals of the Backend Engineering team.
• Exert technical influence to improve the reliability of our products and systems.
• Support defining and improving standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale environment of the ShareTheMeal initiative.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Provide mentorship for team members to help them grow in their technical responsibilities.
• Confidently ship large sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in developing and designing backend architectures.
• Experience building large-scale backends designed to serve thousands or more concurrently active users.
• Embracing principles of clean code, test driven development and agile development processes.
• User-centered approach to software development.
• Strong analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Ability to interact with managers with maturity and tact.
• Mature judgment with strong interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative spirit able to liaise with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility and diplomacy.
• Strong time management skills with an ability to plan, anticipate requirements, problems and obstacles, and an ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work to tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Fully committed and motivated to achieve the aims of the World Food Programme.

Skills

• Expert knowledge of JS/TS and node.js development

Location

• Berlin, Germany

Work Type

• Consultant
• Remote

Experience Level

• At least 6 years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

About the Company

• The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• WFP is pursuing an ambitious growth strategy for individual giving, and ShareTheMeal is a key driver for this strategy going forward.
• The team, located in Berlin and remotely, is focused on increasing the funds raised to help get to zero hunger by further developing the app to include new and innovative features, increasing the engagement of existing users and growing the user base through marketing and communication initiatives.
• Integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, inclusion. These values inspire everything we do every day, allowing us to work towards a world with zero hunger.

Equal Opportunity

• WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
• WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority.