Senior Data Engineer – Hybrid, Data Foundations & Pipelines

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own our core data foundations and deliver scalable pipelines for our foundation model platform, enabling personalized offers and fast experimentation.

You will collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers, design streaming-capable architectures, and drive reliability, cost awareness, and data freshness across datasets feeding the AI Growth team's systems.

Qualifications

• SQL and dbt mastery with modular, multi-layer dbt projects and clean SQL.
• Pipeline design and orchestration using Airflow for scalable data workflows.
• Python proficiency for pipeline logic, testing, and tooling.
• Feature engineering for ML including point-in-time correctness and data freshness bounds.
• Cloud infrastructure experience with BigQuery or comparable environments and cost optimization.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Reliability engineering with data SLAs and post-mortems.
• Partner collaboration to translate requirements into data contracts and schema changes.
• Bonus: familiarity with streaming frameworks, LLM fine-tuning pipelines, or managed ML training platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data foundations: Design and maintain feature pipelines and datasets feeding JET's foundation model platform while ensuring freshness SLAs.
• Drive Platform Excellence: Keep pipelines reliable by leading incident responses, tracking cloud spend, and implementing observability to prevent silent failures.
• Collaborative Mentorship: Mentor engineers through code reviews and design discussions, helping one another succeed and raising the engineering bar.
• Aim High on Architectures: Introduce streaming-aware and incremental patterns, balancing engineering complexity with cost, latency, and performance.

Skills

SQL

dbt

Pipeline design

Airflow

Python

Feature engineering for ML

Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

Reliability engineering

Partner collaboration

Advanced data capabilities

Tools

Airflow

Terraform

Pulumi

BigQuery

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own our core data foundations and deliver scalable pipelines for our foundation model platform, enabling personalized offers and fast experimentation.

You will collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers, design streaming-capable architectures, and drive reliability, cost awareness, and data freshness across datasets feeding the AI Growth team's systems.