Senior Software Engineer - Full-Stack

Deliveroo
London, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Code Review Relational Databases Amazon DynamoDB Elasticsearch Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Memcached MySQL NoSQL Redis Ruby Web Applications
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Job description

As a Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo, your individual work contributes to achieving goals in multiple teams. You will work with your team, lead projects, and deliver results while reporting to managers and group leads.

Technical Execution

  • Improve code structure, architecture, and review code produced by your team. Lead project planning, anticipate dependencies and risks, and partner with other disciplines (PM, Experience).
  • Simplify maintenance and operation of production systems, promoting visibility, operational readiness, and health of your team’s systems.

Collaboration & Leadership

  • Lead from the front on technical execution, build relationships with other engineering teams, and identify collaboration opportunities.
  • Break down large pieces of work, guide design and technical/implementation choices, and influence the roadmap within your team.
  • Take an active role in the hiring process and conduct engineering interviews. Support colleagues’ personal growth and encourage efficiency in their roles.

Requirements

  • Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software.
  • Experience writing web-based applications in any language, with interest in learning Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, or Rust.
  • Familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
  • Experience at scale (20k rpm and above).
  • Experience with NoSQL data backends such as Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Memcache.

About the company

We’re building the definitive online food company, transforming the way the world eats by making hyper-local food more convenient and accessible. We obsess over building the future of food while using our network as a force for good. We’re at the forefront of an industry, powered by our market-leading technology and unrivalled network to bring incredible convenience and selection to our customers.

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