Go Backend Engineer: Build Scalable, Low-Latency Systems

Deliveroo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Deliveroo is seeking a Backend Engineer (Golang) in London to build scalable, low-latency services powering our internal support tools. You’ll shape the future of customer support, impacting how millions interact with our platform every day.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust backend systems, with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability in a fast-growing global environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Production experience in Golang.
• Strong hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases — Cassandra.
• Solid understanding of designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Previous on-call experience, with a pragmatic approach to reliability and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-throughput backend services using Go.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend developers to ship features for internal support agents across the globe.
• Design systems that are scalable, resilient, and easy to maintain.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
• Write well-tested code and help the team maintain high code quality standards.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

On-call experience

SQL & NoSQL databases

Tools

Node.js

AWS

GCP

Job description

Deliveroo is seeking a Backend Engineer (Golang) in London to build scalable, low-latency services powering our internal support tools. You’ll shape the future of customer support, impacting how millions interact with our platform every day.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust backend systems, with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability in a fast-growing global environment.