30 November 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Berlin)

• 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.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

• Drive backend engineering efforts:
  Solve technical problems of high complexity and scope
  Improve our AWS setup using EKS, Terraform, etc.
  Identify and implement security best practices
  Support automation and contribute to internal tooling projects
  Identify and plan reduction of technical debt in the system
  Conduct code reviews and assessments
  Document architecture, code decisions and APIs
  Provide mentorship and feedback to peers in the Backend team
  Hold regular 1:1’s with all members of the Backend Team
  Drive the creation of a technical roadmap
• Develop product features and improvements:
  Create secure, well-tested and performant APIs
  Maintain and conduct bug-fixes to API code
  Collaborate with Product Managers and QA team and drive feature development in an iterative environment.
  Exert technical influence to improve the reliability of our products.
• Contribute to objectives and long-term goals of the Share The Meal Engineering team.
  Support defining and improving tech standards and processes.
  Support in defining and driving the overall roadmap for STM Engineering team.

• Completed contributions to application architecture and software development as agreed with the Lead Backend Engineer.
• Stable and performant operations of the backend systems.
• Documentation and handover to the Lead Backend Engineer for the Share The Meal initiative.

• Expert knowledge of JS/TS and node.js development
• Embracing principles of clean code, test driven development and agile development processes
• Strong analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative
• Ability to collaborate 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

• We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
• Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
• Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
• Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
• Please contact us at

  global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org

  in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified