Golang Engineer

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging problems, contribute to a vital part of our business, and grow your skills within a supportive and innovative engineering team. You'll have the chance to influence architectural decisions and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

You will be part of a cross functional tooling team, supported by engineering resources from other JET teams in a number of countries. As a member of the team, you will play a key role in building new features, improving the code of our platform, and identifying strategic opportunities to drive business growth..

You will have access to like-minded developers, with whom you can collaborate, discuss ideas and concepts, pair-with, challenge and be challenged. You will be able to try out new ideas and concepts, keep up to date with the latest technologies, be mentored and potentially mentor others.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

Product Definition - develop a solid understanding of our product and help to contribute ideas and suggestions

Operating - follow our processes and patterns in order to ensure reliable, clean code and take responsibility for the running of our components in production

Communicate - transparently communicate the progress of your work and discuss ideas with your team and Technology Manager

Teamwork - work closely with others, taking on ideas and suggestions and putting forward your own ideas

Learning and Development - own your own learning and development, with support from the wider team and time set aside in your work day to build up your skill set

What will you bring to the table?

Proven Go Expertise: commercial experience with Go, demonstrating a strong understanding of its idioms and best practices. Bonus: engagement with the Go community, whether through open-source contributions, meetups etc.

A solid grasp of microservices architecture, understanding the advantages and challenges. Experience with event-driven design and reactive systems is also highly valued.

A genuine passion for crafting clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. You should be proficient in various testing methodologies, including unit, functional, contract, and integration testing.

Practical experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, including deploying and managing Go applications in a cloud environment.

Collaborative Team Player: Experience working effectively within a hybrid team environment, demonstrating strong communication skills and a proactive approach to collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.

Prior experience in e-commerce or other high-availability environments where system reliability, performance, and uptime are critical.

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.

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