# Staff Software Engineer - Full-Stack

**Company**: Deliveroo
**Location**: London, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/deliveroo/jobs/8202560?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_335c6955-e81

## Description

Join our London team as a Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack, working on complex technical challenges across a global marketplace. You'll help define technical solutions for critical business problems and lead the technical direction for high-scale systems.

**What You'll Be Doing**

- Drive Technical Excellence: Provide high-level reviews and technical advice across multiple teams.

- Architect Scalable Solutions: Define and design technical solutions for complex business problems within a high-traffic environment (20krpm+).

- Lead Strategic Direction: Influence the long-term technical roadmap and manage project timelines, risks, and sustainable delivery paces.

- Mentor & Coach: Support the growth of engineers across all levels and partner with up-and-coming leaders to scale our engineering culture.

- Shape the Team: Lead engineering interviews and contribute to recruiting strategy to ensure we maintain a high bar for talent.

**What You'll Need to Thrive**

- Significant experience building web-based applications in a modern stack; we use Go, Ruby, Python, and Scala.

- Proven ability to design and operate web architecture at scale, specifically with systems handling significant request volumes.

- Demonstrated ownership of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and experience with "NoSQL" backends such as Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch.

- High-Scale Architecture: Proven ability to design and operate systems handling massive request volumes and complex logistical workflows.

- Strategic Leadership: Strong understanding of how to align multiple disciplines and teams to resolve ambiguous technical challenges.

**Why Join Us?**

- Solve meaningful problems at real scale.

- See your impact, fast.

- Grow through challenge and ownership.

- A culture built for builders.

- Competitive salary and equity options.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Ruby
- Python
- Scala
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- DynamoDB
- Elasticsearch

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