Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Go/Golang

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 in any number of our Product Teams, utilizing AGILE best practice
• Build products and improve existing ones (tech products that is...not meals)
• Take part in decisions related to how we undertake new projects
• Gather requirements and scope out projects with the rest of the team
• Work closely with other developers, designers, QA and others

Your qualification

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building web applications at scale
• 2+ years experience with at least one of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Scala
• Working experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis)
• You take pride in writing readable, well-designed software. You prefer simple solutions over complex ones
• You’re interested in new technologies and tools, but understand the rationale for choosing Boring Technology. You believe in using the right tool for the job
• You’re comfortable building and scaling systems in a growing services infrastructure. You are driven to improve performance, enhance code quality, and establish best practices for your team
• You have a proven ability to get up to speed quickly. You are a team player and will learn whatever new skills or tools needed to get the job done
• You have the initiative and communication skills to build relationships with colleagues on different teams to solve fundamental business problems
• Bonus points for experience with front-end technologies (we use React)

What we offer

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