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DeliverooSenior Software Engineer
This is a full-time, on-site Senior Software Engineer role in London working on Go backend services. The position is placed in the Support Engineering group, which…
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This is a full-time, on-site Senior Software Engineer role in London working on Go backend services. The position is placed in the Support Engineering group, which produces high-performance admin applications and operational tooling for customer, courier and merchant support staff. As the operation expands from 30 to 60 countries, the tools need to expand with it. The group's in-house chat platform processes around five million conversations every month, and it…
Job Description
This is a full-time, on-site Senior Software Engineer role in London working on Go backend services. The position is placed in the Support Engineering group, which produces high-performance admin applications and operational tooling for customer, courier and merchant support staff. As the operation expands from 30 to 60 countries, the tools need to expand with it.
The group's in-house chat platform processes around five million conversations every month, and it is being extended with features that reduce manual work, improve messaging and fix issues proactively. The senior engineer builds and maintains high-throughput backend services, designs systems that can expand, absorb faults and remain easy to care for, and leads architecture debates and technical choices.
The role involves partnering with product, design and frontend colleagues to put tools in front of support agents worldwide. Producing well-tested code and helping the team keep quality high are part of the work, along with coaching others and setting good practice.
The posting asks for at least seven years of professional engineering work, including two or more years of production Go and a record of building complex systems. Strong practical SQL and NoSQL experience, particularly with Cassandra, and grounding in low-latency distributed systems are needed. Candidates should have worked on call and take a level-headed approach to reliability. Background in Node.js or another server-side language, familiarity with AWS or GCP, and experience with event-driven architectures are useful.
Responsibilities
- Own Go-based backend services that must absorb very high traffic volumes.
- Lead architecture discussions and make technical decisions.
- Design resilient, scalable systems that are easy to keep running.
- Work with product, design and frontend colleagues on features for support agents.
- Coach others and set good practice across the team.
Requirements
- Seven-plus years working as a professional software engineer.
- Two or more years of production experience in Go.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, particularly Cassandra.
- Experience reasoning about latency and throughput in distributed systems.
- On-call experience and a level-headed stance on reliability and incidents.
Qualifications
- Background in Node.js or another server-side language.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures.
Core Skills
Benefits
- Benefits vary by country and cover areas such as health care, wellbeing support, parental leave, retirement plans and holidays, plus time off to support a charity of the employee's choice. Candidates are directed to their recruiter for country-specific details.
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The role is based in London and is listed as on site.
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This is a full-time position.
What experience is required?
At least seven years of professional engineering experience and two or more years of production Go experience are required.
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