Software Engineer, Backend

About Deliveroo

Deliveroo is passionate about food and bringing people evermore choice. There are amazing restaurants everywhere that we believe everyone should have access to.

But Deliveroo’s mission is not only to make sure that the restaurants in your area are available to you when and where you want them - we want to go further and bring new restaurants to your area so you have even more choice of amazing food.

Position

• Work as part of a full stack product team to develop solutions to ensure optimal experiences for our customers, riders, and restaurants
• Utilise a variety of backend technologies to build scalable products
• You'll take part in decisions related to how we undertake new projects
• You'll gather requirements and scope out projects with the rest of the team

Your qualification

• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software
• 2 or more years professional experience writing web-based applications in any language, and a willingness to quickly get up to speed on our stack (Ruby/Rails, Go, Python and Scala)
• Experience with TDD environments (RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, Selenium)
• Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis)
• Experience with front-end web technology, bonus points for React
• Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above)
• Experience with PostGIS, or any geography-heavy applications
• Experience with "NoSQL" data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Experience solving logistical problems with software

What we offer

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.