# Senior Software Engineer (Backend)- Merchants

**Company**: Deliveroo
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Deliveroo's Engineering team in London as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Merchants. You'll help improve code structure and architecture, lead project planning, and optimise operations across production systems.

**About the Role** As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work on improving code structure and architecture, performing high-impact code reviews, and leading team project planning to maximise efficiency and reliability across our production systems.

**Responsibilities**

- Drive Technical Excellence: Improve code structure and architecture across your team's remit, performing high-impact code reviews to ensure quality and scalability.

- Lead Project Planning: Foresee dependencies and risks, partnering closely with Product and Design to ensure smooth delivery of complex features.

- Optimise Operations: Simplify the maintenance and operation of production systems, promoting visibility, health, and operational readiness.

- Collaborate & Influence: Build relationships across engineering teams to identify collaboration opportunities and influence the wider technical roadmap.

- Mentor & Hire: Support the personal growth of your colleagues through technical guidance and take an active role in conducting engineering interviews to scale our team.

**Requirements**

- Strong Engineering Principles: Deep pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software.

- Backend Expertise: Significant experience building web-based applications (using Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, and Rust).

- Data Proficiency: Practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and "NoSQL" backends like Redis, DynamoDB, or ElasticSearch.

- Systems at Scale: Proven ability to manage web architecture at scale (handling 20krpm and above).

- Technical Leadership: Experience breaking down large pieces of work and guiding implementation choices for a team of engineers.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary and equity options

- Opportunity to solve meaningful problems at real scale

- Fast-paced and dynamic work environment

- Flexible working and continuous learning

- Culture built for builders with high standards and collaboration

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Ruby/Rails
- Python
- Scala
- Rust
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- DynamoDB
- ElasticSearch

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