Senior Golang Backend Engineer — Global Support Platform

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Deliveroo in London is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to build scalable, low-latency services that power our internal support tooling and customer-facing platforms. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to ship reliable features for millions of users daily.

You will design and implement high-throughput systems, mentor peers, participate in architectural discussions, and ensure high code quality with thorough tests.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of production experience in Golang.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases—especially Cassandra.
• Solid understanding of designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Previous on-call experience, with a pragmatic approach to reliability and incident management.

Skills

Golang

SQL

NoSQL (Cassandra)

Distributed systems

On-call experience

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Node.js

Tools

Cassandra

AWS

GCP

Job description

Deliveroo in London is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to build scalable, low-latency services that power our internal support tooling and customer-facing platforms. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to ship reliable features for millions of users daily.

You will design and implement high-throughput systems, mentor peers, participate in architectural discussions, and ensure high code quality with thorough tests.