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Job Summary
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 Deliveroos growth at scale.
Were looking for a Software Engineer to join our London this role youll help us build and maintain high-performance systems that power our hyper-local marketplace ensuring a seamless experience for millions of users. This role is based in our London office with a hybrid setup typically 3 days in the office.
Get to know our Engineering team what drives us how we work and what you can expect.
What Youll Be Doing
Youll be joining a multi-disciplinary engineering team focused on technical execution and collaboration. As a Software Engineer at Deliveroo your individual work contributes to achieving goals across your team simplifying the maintenance of production systems while ensuring operational readiness and health.
Heres what your day-to-day might look like:
Design and scale backend services for our real-time marketplace using languages such as Go Ruby or Python.
Improve code structure and architecture by participating in deep technical discussions and reviewing code across your teams remit.
Enhance system reliability by focusing on visibility monitoring and the overall health of production systems.
Collaborate across teams to identify integration opportunities and influence the technical roadmap within your domain.
Take an active role in the hiring process conducting engineering interviews and supporting the growth of your peers.
What Youll Need to Thrive
Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:
Pride in readable well-designed and well-tested software with a focus on long-term maintainability.
Experience writing web-based applications in any modern language (Go Ruby/Rails Python Scala or Rust).
Solid understanding of relational databases (such as PostgreSQL or MySQL).
Familiarity with web architecture at scale ideally handling high-traffic environments (20krpm and above).
Exposure to NoSQL data backends or caching layers like Redis DynamoDB or ElasticSearch.
A problem-solving mindset particularly when applied to complex logistical or marketplace challenges.
Why Join Us
At Deliveroo youll do work that matterssolving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace thats constantly evolving. Were food lovers problem solvers community builders and more brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:
Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.
See your impact fast Ship test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy high-ownership environment.
Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.
A culture built for builders High standards collaboration flexible working and continuous learning.
Want a deeper look at how we build Check out our Tech Blog.
We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shineour interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here to help you feel confident at each stage.
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 were unlocking new possibilities as one global team.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
At Deliveroo we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger more creative and better at what we do. Were committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.
We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age gender ethnicity disability sexual orientation gender identity socio-economic background religion or belief.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please contact our recruitment team at and well be happy to help ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
If youre excited about solving meaningful problems at scale and growing with a supportive team wed love to hear from you.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
