Just Eat

Senior Golang Engineer

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1 month ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Senior

Responsibilities

  • Build new features in Golang for the core integration platform.
  • Make architectural decisions and set the platform’s technical direction.
  • Run services in production on AWS, including on-call support, incident response, and observability.
  • Support product and delivery teams.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through mentoring, learning sessions, documentation, and technical guidance.
  • Take ownership of problems end to end and improve how the team builds.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining engineering judgment and accountability for shipped code.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with Golang.
  • Experience building event-driven distributed systems and HTTP/REST services.
  • Experience with asynchronous messaging such as Kafka, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub, or RabbitMQ.
  • Experience with eventual consistency, idempotency, retries, and dead-letter handling.
  • Track record of running services in production on AWS, including on-call, incident response, and observability.
  • Experience with Test-Driven Development and pair programming.
  • Demonstrated mentoring experience, such as mentoring engineers, running learning sessions, or writing documentation.
  • Ability to explain technical ideas to non-technical people and communicate work transparently.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and Kiro while explaining and defending shipped code.
  • Technical leadership experience, such as leading a project or owning an architecture decision, is preferred.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or another container platform is preferred.

Benefits

  • Permanent senior role.
  • International impact through work with teams and well-known global brands.
  • Dynamic, supportive, and inclusive working environment focused on growth and belonging.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDatadogGoGrafanaKubernetesRabbitMQ

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About Just Eat

10,000+ employees

Just Eat Takeaway.com builds an online food-delivery and convenience marketplace that connects consumers with restaurants, grocery, and retail partners, supported by courier logistics and merchant tools. It earns primarily through commissions and delivery fees on orders placed via its apps and website. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company was formed by the 2020 merger of Just Eat and Takeaway.com and is publicly listed on the London and Amsterdam stock exchanges.

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