About EatClub
At EatClub, we believe restaurants and bars are the beating heart of every city’s culture. Whether it's discovering a hidden gem, grabbing a late-night takeaway, or meeting friends for a drink, our mission is simple: help the hospitality industry thrive through smart, powerful tech.
Our platform helps over 4 million customers discover top restaurants and access real-time deals that save them up to 50% off the bill. We empower more than 8,000 venues to fill empty tables, increase foot traffic, and maximise revenue.
#1 app in Food & Drink and awarded Australia's Fastest Growing Tech Company by the AFR in 2025. Now is an exciting time to join our team. Initially co-founded by Marco Pierre White and leaders in the food tech scene, we're now a 200+ person scaleup that's growing fast and making waves in the industry.
Why You’ll Love Working With Us
- Be part of an innovative company shaping the future of dining
- Autonomy, flexibility, high-performing, and a collaborative culture
- A passionate team who values creativity, hustle and results
- Access to some of the best restaurants and hospitality leaders in the industry
- Staff discounts and dining vouchers to enjoy through EatClub
A Day-in-a-Life of our Backend Engineer
As a Backend Engineer at EatClub, you build the systems behind the experience restaurants and diners see every day. You work in Java on serverless AWS, designing APIs and shipping features end-to-end with product, frontend and engineering teammates. It’s a hands‑on role with plenty of ownership and variety: one week you might be shaping a new feature, the next you’re tracking down a performance problem.
On any given week, you will be:
- Designing and building scalable backend services in Java
- Developing and maintaining serverless APIs, and building and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs
- Taking features from idea to production, working alongside product and frontend teammates
- Improving the performance, reliability and scalability of our systems
- Debugging and resolving technical issues, and fixing the root cause, not just the symptom
- Writing automated tests and keeping our code easy to test and change
- Reviewing code and sharing what you know with the team
Projects you'll be working on at EatClub...
- Building new features that help restaurants fill tables and diners find great deals
- Extending our GraphQL and REST APIs as our products grow
- Tuning database queries and service performance as usage scales
- Improving how we monitor, test and ship our serverless services
- Simplifying and modernising parts of our architecture as we learn what works
You have….
- 3-5 years of commercial experience as a Java developer, with a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline
- Strong Java backend skills and a solid grounding in software development principles
- Experience building serverless APIs
- Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs
- Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
- Performance tuning and debugging experience
- A habit of writing automated tests and testable code
- Familiarity with modern architectures and design patterns
- Comfort working with Git
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Full working rights in Australia
It would be extra awesome if you also had…
- Experience with AWS (S3, AppSync, API Gateway, Lambda, etc.)
- Experience building or working with CI/CD pipelines
- An interest in food, restaurants and dining out
You are…
- Proactive. You spot what needs doing and get on with it without waiting to be asked.
- A finisher. You take a feature from first commit to production and check that it works.
- Product-minded. You care about why you’re building something and who it’s for, not just how.
- A collaborator. You work easily with product, frontend and fellow engineers, and explain your thinking clearly.
- Curious. You enjoy variety, like digging into a tricky bug, and keep learning.
If you do a good job…
- Restaurants and diners get fast, reliable experiences, and new features land smoothly.
- Our APIs stay quick and dependable as we grow.
- Issues are found and fixed quickly, and rarely come back.
- Teammates ship faster because your code is clean, tested and easy to build on.
Maybe this role is not for you if….
- You want to work in a single narrow area rather than across the stack with variety.
- You prefer detailed instructions to owning problems from start to finish.
- You’d rather not work closely with product and frontend teammates.
- You prefer slow-moving environments with fixed priorities over a fast-moving one.
If you're curious about what we're building, you're welcome to explore EatClub ahead of your interview. First-time users who choose to give it a try can use the code "ECAPPLY5" for an optional $5 voucher to test the experience.
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Backend Engineer (Payments, Au) employer: EatClub
At EatClub, we pride ourselves on being a dynamic and innovative employer that champions the hospitality industry through cutting-edge technology. Our vibrant work culture fosters collaboration and creativity, offering employees the chance to make a direct impact on our growth while utilising advanced AI tools. With ample opportunities for professional development and a supportive environment, joining our team means being part of a fast-growing scaleup that values your contributions and encourages you to thrive.
