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Software Engineer II - New Verticals

Deliveroo · London, England, United Kingdom

Our Global Structure Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we're unlocking new possibilities as one global team. Software Engineer Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day. From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo's growth at scale. In November 2023 we launched our non-food retail offering, Deliveroo 'Shopping', where we work with large and small merchants. We oversee all operations within the grocery and retail ecosystem, ensuring stores are equipped to receive and efficiently process orders. Our solutions empower stores to manage orders seamlessly through multiple channels, including our in-house app, API integration, and devices pre-installed with our software. Additionally, we provide tools to maintain and update product catalogs, ensuring accurate inventory for consumers. The technology we've developed enables our partners to pick the correct items swiftly while keeping inventory data current, optimizing both efficiency and accuracy. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our London team. In this role, you'll help us build and maintain high-performance systems that power our hyper-local marketplace, ensuring a seamless experience for millions of users. This role is based in our London office with a hybrid setup, typically 3 days in the office. Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect. What You'll Be Doing You'll be joining a multi-disciplinary engineering team focused on technical execution and collaboration. As a Software Engineer at Deliveroo, your individual work contributes to achieving goals across your team, simplifying the maintenance of production systems while ensuring operational readiness and health. Here's what your day-to-day might look like: Design and scale backend services for our real-time marketplace using languages such as Go, Ruby, or Python. Improve code structure and architecture by participating in deep technical discussions and reviewing code across your team's remit. Enhance system reliability by focusing on visibility, monitoring, and the overall health of production systems. Collaborate across teams to identify integration opportunities and influence the technical roadmap within your domain. Take an active role in the hiring process , conducting engineering interviews and supporting the growth of your peers. What You'll Need to Thrive Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: Pride in readable, well-designed, and well-tested software , with a focus on long-term maintainability. Experience writing web-based applications in any modern language (Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, or Rust). Solid understanding of relational databases (such as PostgreSQL or MySQL). Familiarity with web architecture at scale , ideally handling high-traffic environments (20krpm and above). Exposure to NoSQL data backends or caching layers like Redis, DynamoDB, or ElasticSearch. A problem-solving mindset , particularly when applied to complex logistical or marketplace challenges. Why Join Us? At Deliveroo, you'll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that's constantly evolving. We're food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to: 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day. 🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment. 🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support. 🌎 A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning. ➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog . We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here to help you feel confident at each stage. Our Global Structure Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we're unlocking new possibilities as one global team. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects

Role	Software Engineer II - New Verticals
Company	Deliveroo
Location	London, England, United Kingdom
Compensation	Not disclosed
Deadline	Rolling

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