Senior Go Engineer - Platform & Tech Lead

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Loughton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a senior Golang engineer to elevate our integration platform that connects Grocery Partners with the JET ecosystem. You will own core functionality, set technical standards and mentor colleagues in a fast-paced, global environment.

You will work with Golang on event-driven microservices, running on Kubernetes and AWS. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, on-call discipline, and collaboration with product and delivery teams to ship reliable, scalable

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production-grade Go services.
• Strong background in event-driven distributed systems.
• Extensive AWS production experience including on-call duties.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Build features in Golang within event-driven microservices.
• Make architectural decisions and set the technical direction for the platform.
• Support product and delivery teams to ship reliable services.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and share knowledge.
• Communicate complex ideas clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Golang

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

On-call / incident response

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Pair programming

Communication of complex ideas

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

DynamoDB

S3

SQS

SNS

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes (container platform)

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a senior Golang engineer to elevate our integration platform that connects Grocery Partners with the JET ecosystem. You will own core functionality, set technical standards and mentor colleagues in a fast-paced, global environment.

You will work with Golang on event-driven microservices, running on Kubernetes and AWS. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, on-call discipline, and collaboration with product and delivery teams to ship reliable, scalable