Go Backend Engineer - Scale Microservices with AI

Just Eat Takeaway.com; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London is seeking a mid-level Golang Software Engineer to strengthen our event-driven microservices and integration platform, working with Kafka and AWS on Kubernetes. You'll grow toward seniority by collaborating with product and delivery teams and learning from experienced engineers.

You should bring solid backend experience, production Go, and a passion for scalable design, TDD, and effective communication.

Qualifications

• Several years of backend engineering experience.
• Production Go experience or proven ability to learn Go quickly.
• Strong Go fundamentals: concurrency, error handling, interfaces.
• Experience with microservice and event-driven design.
• Experience building and operating production services end-to-end with monitoring.
• Familiarity with TDD.
• Strong communication and ownership.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes or container platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build new features in Go within our event-driven microservices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and platform evolution.
• Support product and delivery teams to deliver reliable services.
• Learn from senior engineers and share knowledge with the team.

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Concurrency

TDD

Microservices

Kubernetes

Pair programming

AI-assisted development

Communicator

Tools

Kafka

AWS (DynamoDB, S3)

Datadog

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London is seeking a mid-level Golang Software Engineer to strengthen our event-driven microservices and integration platform, working with Kafka and AWS on Kubernetes. You'll grow toward seniority by collaborating with product and delivery teams and learning from experienced engineers.

You should bring solid backend experience, production Go, and a passion for scalable design, TDD, and effective communication.