European restaurant discovery and booking platform with 55,000+ venues
TheFork operates Europe's largest restaurant booking marketplace, serving 20 million monthly active users across 11 countries. The company is undergoing a deliberate modernization cycle—actively decommissioning PHP/Symfony legacy code while building a self-service data platform and transactional communications layer on Node.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL. Sales hiring (25 open roles) heavily outweighs engineering (9), indicating a revenue-growth focus rather than product-led expansion, corroborated by active projects around B2B gift card campaigns and peak-period monetization.
Notable leadership hires: CRM Head
TheFork is a restaurant discovery and booking app founded in 2007 and acquired by TripAdvisor in 2014. The platform connects diners with over 55,000 restaurants across Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Netherlands, and Portugal. The app has been downloaded 40 million times and hosts 20 million user reviews. Beyond consumer bookings, TheFork operates B2B channels including gift card sales and restaurant management tools. Current operational priorities include expanding venue coverage, growing gift card volume, and digitalizing restaurant operations for hospitality partners.
TheFork's primary stack includes Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and RabbitMQ. Operational tools include Datadog, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and analytics platforms (Amplitude, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics). They are phasing out PHP and Symfony in favor of modern JavaScript-based architecture.
TheFork has 9 active engineering roles posted within the last 30 days across their 52 total open positions. The majority of hiring (25 roles) is in sales. Engineering roles span modernization work including data platform build-out and authentication infrastructure.
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