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# Senior Golang Engineer

- **Company:** Just Eat Takeaway.com
- **Location:** Slough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Pair Programming, RabbitMQ, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Datadog, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Claude Code, Grafana, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/senior-golang-engineer/51598690

## About the Role

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

## Description

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