At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of high-throughput microservices and complex features in Go.
- Company: Join Just Eat Takeaway.com, a global leader in online food delivery.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team driving innovation in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Shape the future of food delivery tech while mentoring the next generation of engineers.
- Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in Go, with expertise in microservices and distributed systems.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
We are looking for a proactive technical leader with a robust engineering foundation to drive our platform forward.
As a Senior Engineer, you will bring deep expertise in system architecture from day one, guiding the team and shaping the technical vision required to build the high‑volume POS and menu integrations that keep global brands running smoothly.
Responsibilities Build, scale, and lead high‑throughput microservices and complex features in Go.
Architect, develop, and maintain robust, scalable solutions and shape the wider integration architecture.
Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, event‑driven systems, managing eventual consistency and distributed architecture challenges.
Define observability standards, lead weekly signal channel reviews, identify and resolve production anomalies before they impact partners.
Elevate engineering standards by mentoring mid‑level and junior engineers, leading collaborative debugging sessions, and driving best practices across the team.
Collaborate with product and delivery teams to ensure smooth roll‑out of integrations across international markets.
Qualifications Substantial commercial experience (5+ years) writing clean, highly efficient, and testable Go code.
Deep expertise in architecting microservices and event‑driven systems with mastery of distributed architecture and eventual consistency.
Strong SRE mindset: focus on system reliability, production services improvement, and incident response.
Advanced hands‑on experience designing and deploying scalable systems on Amazon Web Services, including Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, and S3.
Comfortable leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate workflow, architect scaffolding, and debug complex, distributed issues.
About the Company Just Eat Takeaway. com (JET) is a leading global online food delivery marketplace.
Our tech ecosystem connects millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners in countries across the globe.
We empower every food moment around the world, whether through customer service, coding or couriers.
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