Backend Engineer, BI Platform & Data Tools

Deliveroo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office access

Job summary

Deliveroo is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend in London to join our Core BI team. This hybrid role requires roughly three days in the London office, working across Looker, Sigma and the wider BI platform stack.

You will design and operate backend services, APIs and automation that power BI workloads for Deliveroo, DoorDash and Wolt, collaborating with data engineers, data scientists and product managers to deliver self‑service data capabilities with reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform or infrastructure systems.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with strong data modelling and warehousing knowledge.
• Experience designing and owning APIs, integrations or automation in production.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, containers and Kubernetes, observability and incident response.
• Experience using AI tools for engineering tasks and decision making.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and operate backend services, APIs and automation powering BI platforms.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of platform components from discovery to deployment and support.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Managers to deliver self-service data capabilities.
• Improve reliability, performance, security and developer experience across the BI stack.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Warehousing concepts

APIs

CI/CD

Containers

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

AI tooling

Tools

Looker

Sigma

Okta

SCIM

LookML

dbt

Job description

Deliveroo is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend in London to join our Core BI team. This hybrid role requires roughly three days in the London office, working across Looker, Sigma and the wider BI platform stack.

You will design and operate backend services, APIs and automation that power BI workloads for Deliveroo, DoorDash and Wolt, collaborating with data engineers, data scientists and product managers to deliver self‑service data capabilities with reliability and governance.