Senior Software Engineer
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Location: London Hybrid
As a Senior Software Engineer at Gousto youll have the opportunity to design and deliver complex high-impact technical solutions that power products used by millions of customers. Youll work with real ownership and autonomy leading the delivery of large features end to end while shaping solutions that are scalable reliable and aligned with our architectural standards.
Youll also play a visible leadership role within your team - mentoring other engineers raising the bar through thoughtful code reviews and championing best practices across engineering. Working closely with product managers and stakeholders youll help shape technical direction and influence how we build not just what we build driving meaningful improvements in both our technology and our ways of working.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable maintainable solutions to complex technical challenges
- Lead technical design discussions and guide teams through architectural trade-offs
- Provide comprehensive code reviews and technical mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers
- Take ownership of production incidents leading resolution and driving preventive improvements
- Drive improvements in testing practices monitoring and overall system reliability
- Collaborate across teams to ensure effective integration of solutions and management of dependencies
- Balance delivery of new features with proactive management of technical debt
- Promote and guide adoption of engineering best practices including XP TDD and DevOps
- Partner with product managers to provide technical insight into feature planning and prioritisation
Who You Are
- Highly skilled in modern programming languages frameworks and development practices
- Confident designing software architectures and making sound technical decisions
- Experienced in mentoring junior and mid-level engineers through feedback pairing and code reviews
- Comfortable leading the delivery of large features or complex technical initiatives
- Knowledgeable in system performance scalability and security considerations
- A strong problem-solver able to debug and resolve complex production issues
- Proactive in improving team processes technical standards and ways of working
- An effective communicator able to influence technical decisions and collaborate with stakeholders
- Able to balance quality speed and long-term maintainability in delivery
- Motivated by Goustos mission and excited to make a meaningful impact at scale
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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.
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Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We believe home cooking is important. But in todays busy world, its often the first thing to go. With Gousto, you choose recipes youd like to cook and ta-dah! We deliver the perfectly measured ingredients. Skip the supermarket queue, and create delicious meals to share with those y ... View more
