Senior Go Engineer: Architect & Scale Microservices

Just Eat Holding Limited; Dartford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a proactive Senior Engineer in the UK to lead high-volume Go-based microservices. You will shape system architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to deploy reliable, scalable integrations across international markets.

Join a fast-paced, supportive environment with a focus on observability, incident response, and AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery of complex features for leading brands and partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial Go experience delivering clean, efficient code.
• Deep expertise in architecting microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on AWS experience with scalable systems (DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3).

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain robust, high-throughput microservices in Go.
• Drive system design and architecture for scalable solutions.
• Define observability standards and lead production incident reviews.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with product and delivery teams to roll out integrations internationally.
• Champion reliability with an SRE mindset.

Skills

Go

Microservices architecture

Event-driven architecture

SRE mindset

AWS

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

S3

AI-assisted development

Tools

AWS services

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a proactive Senior Engineer in the UK to lead high-volume Go-based microservices. You will shape system architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to deploy reliable, scalable integrations across international markets.

Join a fast-paced, supportive environment with a focus on observability, incident response, and AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery of complex features for leading brands and partners.