Senior Golang Engineer — Lead Architecture & Mentorship

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Esher; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to enhance the integration platform that connects Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway platform. This permanent role focuses on setting technical standards, lifting the team, and maintaining core functionality relied upon by thousands of partners.

You will work primarily in Golang, building event-driven microservices on Kubernetes, with Kafka, AWS (DynamoDB, S3) and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Golang.
• Experience with event-driven distributed systems (Kafka, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub or RabbitMQ).
• Production AWS experience and on-call incident response.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Ownership beyond tickets; end-to-end problem ownership.
• Mentoring engineers and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent communication; able to explain technical ideas to non-technical people.
• Familiar with AI-assisted development tools and moving fast while keeping judgment.
• Pair programming experience.
• Technical leadership experience would be a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container platforms would be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build new features in our core language, Golang.
• Make key architectural decisions and set the technical direction for the platform.
• Support product and delivery teams.
• Mentor mid level and junior engineers, and shape how the team builds.

Skills

Golang

Event-driven systems

On-call incident response

Mentoring

Pair programming

Communication

AI-assisted development

Tools

Kafka

SQS

SNS

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

DynamoDB

S3

Datadog

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to enhance the integration platform that connects Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway platform. This permanent role focuses on setting technical standards, lifting the team, and maintaining core functionality relied upon by thousands of partners.

You will work primarily in Golang, building event-driven microservices on Kubernetes, with Kafka, AWS (DynamoDB, S3) and observability tools.