Senior Golang Engineer

Hungry for a challenge? That’s good, because at Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) we believe everything is possible, or, as we say, everything is on the table. We are a leading global online food delivery marketplace. Our tech ecosystem connects millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners in countries across the globe. Our mission? To empower every food moment around the world, whether it’s through customer service, coding or couriers. The Opportunity 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, GolangMake key architectural decisions and set the technical direction for the platformSupport product and delivery teamsMentor mid level and junior engineers, and shape how the team builds What will you bring to the table? Strong experience with GolangExperience with event-driven distributed systems: HTTP/REST services, async messaging (Kafka, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub or RabbitMQ), eventual consistency, idempotency, retries and dead-letter handlingA track record of running your own services in production on AWS: on-call, incident response and observabilityExperience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)Ownership beyond your own tickets: you take problems end to end and improve how the team worksMentoring shown by what you've already done, such as mentoring engineers, running learning sessions or writing docs others usedA 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 thinkingAI-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 shipPair programming experienceTechnical leadership, such as leading a project or owning an architecture decision, would be a plusExperience with Kubernetes or another container platform would be a plus At JET, This Is On The Menu Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition. Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day. What else are we delivering? Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels. Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!