Senior Golang Engineer

Company: Just Eat Holding Limited
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Location: Watford
Job Description:

We are looking for a proactive technical leader with a robust engineering foundation to drive our platform forward. As a Senior Engineer, you will bring deep expertise in system architecture from day one, guiding the team and shaping the technical vision required to build the high‑volume POS and menu integrations that keep global brands running smoothly.

Responsibilities

  • Build, scale, and lead high‑throughput microservices and complex features in Go.
  • Architect, develop, and maintain robust, scalable solutions and shape the wider integration architecture.
  • Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, event‑driven systems, managing eventual consistency and distributed architecture challenges.
  • Define observability standards, lead weekly signal channel reviews, identify and resolve production anomalies before they impact partners.
  • Elevate engineering standards by mentoring mid‑level and junior engineers, leading collaborative debugging sessions, and driving best practices across the team.
  • Collaborate with product and delivery teams to ensure smooth roll‑out of integrations across international markets.

Qualifications

  • Substantial commercial experience (5+ years) writing clean, highly efficient, and testable Go code.
  • Deep expertise in architecting microservices and event‑driven systems with mastery of distributed architecture and eventual consistency.
  • Strong SRE mindset: focus on system reliability, production services improvement, and incident response.
  • Advanced hands‑on experience designing and deploying scalable systems on Amazon Web Services, including DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and S3.
  • Comfortable leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate workflow, architect scaffolding, and debug complex, distributed issues.

About the Company

Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) is 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. We empower every food moment around the world, whether through customer service, coding or couriers.

Diversity & Inclusion

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at JET. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages diversity of people and thinking, where all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colorful selves to work every day.

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Posted: July 12th, 2026