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Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - New Verticals
Deliveroo · 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
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About the role
Our Global Structure Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we're unlocking new possibilities as one global team. Senior Software Engineer 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 November 2023 we launched our non-food retail offering, Deliveroo 'Shopping', where we work with large and small merchants. We oversee all operations within the grocery and retail ecosystem, ensuring stores are equipped to receive and efficiently process orders. Our solutions empower stores to manage orders seamlessly through multiple channels, including our in-house app, API integration, and devices pre-installed with our software. Additionally, we provide tools to maintain and update product catalogs, ensuring accurate inventory for consumers. The technology we've developed enables our partners to pick the correct items swiftly while keeping inventory data current, optimizing both efficiency and accuracy. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our London (Hybrid - 3 days from the office) team. In this role, you'll help us improve code structure and architecture while leading team project planning to maximise efficiency and reliability across our production systems. Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect. What You'll Be Doing Here's what your day-to-day might look like: • 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. What You'll Need to Thrive Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: • Strong Engineering Principles: Deep pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software. • Backend Expertise: Significant experience building web-based applications (we use 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. Why Join Us? At Deliveroo, you'll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that's constantly evolving. We're food lovers, problem solvers, community organisers, proud parents, and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here y