Hungry for a challenge?
That’s good, because at Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) we believe everything is possible, or, as we say, everything is on the table. We are a leading global online food delivery marketplace. Our tech ecosystem connects millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners in countries across the globe.
Our mission? To empower every food moment around the world, whether it’s through customer service, coding or couriers.
The Opportunity
The Golang Engineering role plays a critical part in connecting Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway platform. We are looking for engineers to take our integration platform to the next level whilst maintaining core functionality on which thousands of our partners depend. This is a permanent senior role: we're hiring someone to stay, set the technical standard and lift the people around them.
Our Stack
You will work mainly in Golang on event-driven microservices. Day to day that means Kafka, AWS (DynamoDB, S3 in particular), Datadog and Grafana, running on Kubernetes. AWS production experience matters here.
These are some of the key ingredients to the role:
In this role, you will also have the opportunity to:
- Build new features in our core language, Golang
- Make key architectural decisions and set the technical direction for the platform
- Support product and delivery teams
- Mentor mid level and junior engineers, and shape how the team builds
What will you bring to the table?
- Strong experience with Golang
- Experience with event-driven distributed systems: HTTP/REST services, async messaging (Kafka, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub or RabbitMQ), eventual consistency, idempotency, retries and dead-letter handling
- A track record of running your own services in production on AWS: on-call, incident response and observability
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Ownership beyond your own tickets: you take problems end to end and improve how the team works
- Mentoring shown by what you've already done, such as mentoring engineers, running learning sessions or writing docs others used
- A great communicator: you're comfortable explaining technical ideas to non-technical people, and "working out loud" (WOL'ing, as we call it) so others can follow your thinking
- AI-assisted development: the team uses tools like Claude Code and Kiro every day. We want engineers who use AI to move faster while keeping their own engineering judgement, and who can explain and defend any code they ship
- Pair programming experience
- Technical leadership, such as leading a project or owning an architecture decision, would be a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes or another container platform would be a plus
At JET, this is on the menu:
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.
Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging:
No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
What else are we delivering?
Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.
Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!
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Skills Required
- Strong experience with Golang
- Experience building event-driven distributed systems
- Experience with HTTP/REST services
- Experience with asynchronous messaging such as Kafka, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub, or RabbitMQ
- Knowledge of eventual consistency, idempotency, retries, and dead-letter handling
- Experience running services in production on AWS
- Experience with on-call support, incident response, and observability
- Experience with Test-Driven Development
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of technical problems
- Demonstrated mentoring experience
- Strong communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools while applying independent engineering judgment
- Pair programming experience
- Technical leadership experience, such as leading a project or owning an architecture decision
- Experience with Kubernetes or another container platform
What We Do
Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online food delivery marketplace, connecting consumers and restaurants through our platform in 20 countries. Like a dinner table, working at JET brings our office employees and couriers together. From coding to customer service to couriers, JET is a fun, fast-paced and supportive place where you can be yourself. No day is the same. Our days are filled with new experiences. We see every challenge that comes our way as a chance to grow, both the business, and ourselves. We’re connected to millions of food-lovers, hundreds of thousands of connected partners and some of the best-known brands of the planet. When you take your seat here, you’ll find that a simple scribble on a napkin can turn into something seen by millions. Together we transform, create, reinvent and empower every food moment. As a leading online food tech company, JET brings together the stability of a global business, with the agility of a start-up. We got here by always staying one step ahead of the competition. So load up your plate with ideas that get you excited, because at JET everything is on the table. https://careers.justeattakeaway.com
