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# Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack - New Verticals

- **Company:** Deliveroo
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Salary:** £64,321
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Relational Databases, Cursor, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Ruby, Software Engineering, Web Applications, Claude Code, Code Structure, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Data Analytics, Web Architecture
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5962895261

## About the Role

Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:

 * Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software
 * Strong Engineering Principles: Deep pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software.
 * Backend Expertise: Significant experience building web-based applications (we use Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, and Rust).
 * Data Proficiency: Practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and "NoSQL" backends like Redis, DynamoDB, or ElasticSearch.
 * Systems at Scale: Proven ability to manage web architecture at scale (handling 20krpm and above).
 * Technical Leadership: Experience breaking down large pieces of work and guiding implementation choices for a team of engineers.

## Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our London, UK - Hybrid (3 days from the office) team. In this role, you'll help us define technical solutions for critical business problems and lead the technical direction for complex, high-scale systems.

Get to know our Engineering team - what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

You'll be joining a high-impact engineering group focused on solving unstructured and ambiguous challenges. You will act as a technical authority, aligning non-adjacent teams to deliver results that move the needle for the entire organisation.

Here's what your day-to-day might look like:

 * Drive Technical Excellence: Improve code structure and architecture across your team's remit, developing, releasing and running large-scale web applications whilst transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
 * Lead Project Planning: Foresee dependencies and risks, partnering closely with Product and Design to ensure smooth delivery of complex features, whilst defining the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
 * Optimise Operations:Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
 * Collaborate & Influence: Build relationships across global engineering teams to identify collaboration opportunities and influence the wider technical roadmap.
 * Mentor & Hire: Support the personal growth of your colleagues through technical guidance and take an active role in conducting engineering interviews to scale our team.