Senior Go Engineer – Lead Systems & Scale Microservices

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Usk; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom is seeking a proactive Senior Engineer with a strong Go background to drive platform architecture. You will guide the team, shape the technical vision, and build high-throughput microservices for POS and menu integrations across international markets.

You’ll lead system design, champion observability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and delivery teams to ensure reliable, scalable integrations for partners worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of substantial commercial experience writing clean, efficient, and testable Go code.
• Deep knowledge of architecting microservices and event-driven systems.
• Strong focus on system reliability post-deployment and incident response.
• Hands-on experience designing scalable systems on AWS (DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3).
• Comfort using AI coding assistants to accelerate development and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead in Go: develop high-throughput microservices and features.
• Drive system design and architecture for scalable integrations across markets.
• Champion observability and lead production-soc reviews to prevent outages.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Collaborate with product and delivery teams to roll out integrations reliably across international markets.

Skills

Go programming

Event-driven architecture

Site reliability engineering mindset

AWS cloud services

AI-assisted development

Tools

DynamoDB

SNS

SQS

S3

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom is seeking a proactive Senior Engineer with a strong Go background to drive platform architecture. You will guide the team, shape the technical vision, and build high-throughput microservices for POS and menu integrations across international markets.

You’ll lead system design, champion observability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and delivery teams to ensure reliable, scalable integrations for partners worldwide.