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Deliveroo

Senior Software Engineer

Deliveroo

Senior Golang Backend Engineer building scalable support systems for Deliveroo’s global food and retail marketplace. Designing low-latency services powering millions of customer-support interactions.

Posted 9/9/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining high-throughput backend services using Go, with a strong focus on designing scalable and resilient systems. Proven ability to mentor team members and uphold high code quality standards while collaborating effectively across teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Golang DevelopmentSQL and NoSQL DatabasesDistributed Systems DesignArchitectural Decision-MakingCloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringBackend DevelopmentSystem ScalabilityCode Quality StandardsIncident ManagementLow-Latency SystemsHigh-Throughput SystemsCassandraNode.jsEvent-Driven Architectures
Soft Skills
MentoringCollaborationPragmatic Problem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
AWSGCPCassandra
Industry Keywords
High-Throughput ServicesDistributed SystemsTechnical Decision-MakingProduct CollaborationOn-Call Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCassandraCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptNode.jsNoSQLSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and maintain high-throughput backend services using Go
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend developers to ship features supporting internal support agents globally
  • Design scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems
  • Lead and contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making
  • Write well-tested code
  • Help maintain high code quality standards

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Proven track record of building and scaling complex systems
  • 2+ years of production experience in Golang
  • Ability to mentor others and drive best practices across the team
  • Strong hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, especially Cassandra
  • Solid understanding of designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
  • Previous on-call experience
  • Pragmatic approach to reliability and incident management
  • Background in Node.js or other backend languages (nice to have)
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and event-driven architectures (nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Healthcare benefits
  • Well-being benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Pensions
  • Generous annual leave allowances
  • Time off to support a charitable cause of your choice
  • Workplace adjustments to support equitable participation in the application and interview process