Senior Go Engineer: Scale Microservices & Cloud Reliability

Just Eat Takeaway.com; St Albans; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Engineer in the United Kingdom to drive our platform forward with high-volume POS and menu integrations for global brands.

You will lead Go microservice development, architect scalable event-driven solutions, and champion observability and reliability. The role includes mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and delivery teams across international markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Go development and microservices experience.
• Deep knowledge of event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
• Strong focus on reliability and incident response in production.
• Hands-on AWS experience with DynamoDB, SQS, SNS and S3.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate work.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-throughput Go microservices.
• Lead system design, scalability, and integration architecture.
• Define observability standards and review production signals weekly.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and share best practices.
• Collaborate with product and delivery teams across markets.

Skills

Go

Event-driven architecture

SRE mindset

AWS

AI-assisted development

Tools

DynamoDB

SNS

SQS

S3

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Engineer in the United Kingdom to drive our platform forward with high-volume POS and menu integrations for global brands.

You will lead Go microservice development, architect scalable event-driven solutions, and champion observability and reliability. The role includes mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and delivery teams across international markets.