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