Golang Backend Engineer — Event-Driven Microservices & Kubernetes

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Loughton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a mid-level Golang Engineer to help elevate our event-driven integration platform that connects Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway ecosystem. You will build features in Go, contribute to architecture, and support product and delivery teams while growing toward seniority.

Join a fast-paced team using Kafka, AWS services, Kubernetes, and observability tools, with a culture of curiosity, ownership, and AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• Production Go experience: 1+ year
• Solid Go fundamentals: concurrency, error handling, interfaces
• Experience with microservice and event-driven design
• Built and run at least one production service end-to-end with monitoring
• Experience with TDD
• Strong communication and ownership
• AI-assisted development experience and ability to defend code
• Pair programming experience

Responsibilities

• Build new features in our core language, Golang
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help move the platform forward
• Support product and delivery teams
• Learn from senior engineers, and share what you pick up with the team

Skills

Backend engineering

Go programming

TDD

Pair programming

Communication

AI-assisted development

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

DynamoDB

S3

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a mid-level Golang Engineer to help elevate our event-driven integration platform that connects Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway ecosystem. You will build features in Go, contribute to architecture, and support product and delivery teams while growing toward seniority.

Join a fast-paced team using Kafka, AWS services, Kubernetes, and observability tools, with a culture of curiosity, ownership, and AI-assisted development.