At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead AI-driven projects to enhance developer workflows and improve code quality.
- Company: Join Deliveroo, a dynamic tech company transforming the food delivery industry.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, flexible working, and opportunities for growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on continuous learning and diversity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced environment while solving meaningful problems.
- Qualifications: Strong software engineering skills, especially in Go, with a passion for AI and systems thinking.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day. From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale.
In this role, you’ll help us build the systems and standards that define what “good” looks like across our global codebase, empowering thousands of engineers to ship with velocity and confidence.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading the AI-Native Transformation: Identifying and implementing areas inside the group that would benefit from leveraging AI, from developer support to testing to prototyping. Working closely with teams across the group and stakeholders across the business at all levels of seniority to land the impact of the changes while ensuring everyone is brought along on the journey.
- Embedding AI in Developer Workflows: Deliver consistent, trusted, and reproducible AI-assisted ways of working across all 5 teams in the group, in areas ranging from mobile development to developer tooling.
- Powering AI-Assisted Development: Encode gating rules and quality expectations into agentic development workflows, ensuring AI-generated code meets the same rigorous standards as human-written code.
- Driving Engineering Excellence: Use metrics to track efficiency improvements through initiatives grounded in data and influencing engineering standards across a distributed, global organisation.
What You’ll Need to Thrive
- Excellent communication: Proven storytelling and narrative skills that will align the group behind a vision and ensure everyone is brought along for the journey.
- Systems thinking: Demonstrated ability to design, build and operate complex systems or toolchains requiring the coordination of many stakeholders at large scale.
- Strong business lens: Clear ability to look beyond the technical space and understand its impact on the business, and be able to translate organisational business goals into concrete team initiatives.
- Significant experience in Go or similar: Strong software engineering fundamentals with a proven track record of building and operating production systems in Go or similar modern languages. Any experience with TypeScript, Kotlin, and Python is also beneficial.
- Platform Engineering or Developer Experience mindset: Demonstrated ownership of large-scale codebases or shared developer platforms and frameworks used by many distributed teams.
- Forward-looking Technical Vision: Familiarity with state-of-the-art agentic AI development workflows and the ability to translate ambiguous quality concerns into reproducible technical controls.
Why Join Us?
- Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.
- See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.
- Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.
- A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.
- Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.
