Staff Software Engineer

Location: London Hybrid 

Were thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to join us at Gousto where youll help shape the future of our customer acquisition and e-commerce platform. Youll lead the technical direction of a high-impact engineering team working closely with product design data and platform experts to deliver robust scalable systems. From mentoring engineers in XP practices like TDD and pair programming to guiding architectural decisions across domains youll be a key driver of technical excellence and innovation. If youre hungry for a role where you can combine deep technical leadership with real business impactthis is it.

Here at Gousto youll take ownership of two major initiatives. First youll lead the modernisation of our sign-up experience delivering a seamless multi-market flow that improves personalisation compliance and mobile parity while decoupling legacy systems. Second youll empower our marketing teams with CMS-driven SEO-optimised landing pages and precise attributionreducing engineering dependency and boosting campaign performance. Its a rare chance to make a wide-reaching impact across a fast-growing food-loving businessso come and help us cook up something amazing.

What youll do 

• Coach and mentor engineers promoting best practices such as XP TDD and pair programming through hands-on guidance
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable API-based and event-driven architectures using cloud services and a mix of relational and NoSQL databases
• Drive technical excellence by championing high-quality solutions improving system architecture and boosting developer productivity
• Guide and de-risk the delivery of large-scale technical changes ensuring alignment with architectural patterns and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across product design and platform to solve complex business challenges with innovative technical solutions
• Align engineering efforts with broader business goals enabling teams to deliver efficiently while upholding architectural integrity
• Help shape and evolve Goustos engineering culture by advocating for continuous improvement and adoption of best practices such as DORA metrics and XP principles

Who you are

• A strategic and hands-on engineer with a strong track record of designing and delivering scalable secure solutions that align with long-term business and technical goals
• Experienced in collaborating with architects principal engineers and cross-functional teams to ensure systems are reliable performant and aligned with platform-wide strategies
• Comfortable leading architecture discussions and driving improvements in scalability reliability and maintainability
• A strong advocate of Agile and XP practices with the ability to embed iterative feedback-driven development methods across multiple teams
• Skilled at balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability ensuring solutions remain adaptable and future-proof
• Passionate about mentoring others with a proven ability to coach senior engineers and uplift technical standards across the board
• A promoter of DevOps culture and shared ownership with experience improving developer experience through tooling process enhancements and operational excellence

Additional Information :

Interview Process

• Call with the Gousto TA Team 
• Introduction with Hiring Manager 
• System Design Session
• Pair Programming and XP Practices Session
• Thrive @ Gousto (Ownership Principle round) 

Benefits

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Gousto is for everyone:

Whether its creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equality in all we do; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.

Everyone is welcome and were looking for applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. 

Excited but wondering if you tick every box We recommend applying anyway so that we can review your profile . And if youre in a job share why not just apply as a pair.

For our roles outside of Operations most of our people spend 1 or 2 days in our offices every week combining the benefits of flexibility and time together with colleagues. We want to enable you to do your best work and if you require additional flexibility please talk to us about it.

If you have a disability that youre worried will affect you during the interview process please let us know and we will do our best to help you feel comfortable.

Wed love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying please let us know. 

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