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# Backend Engineer, Home Page & Merchandising Platform

- **Company:** Deliveroo
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £55,916.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Relational Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Ruby, Web Applications, Code Structure, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Web Architecture
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5918843979

## About the Role

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.

## Description

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our London team. In this role, you'll 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 You'll Be Doing
You'll 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.

Here's 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 team's 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.