Senior Golang Engineer - Lead Platform & Mentorship

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Enfield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Golang engineer to help scale our event-driven platform. You will build production-grade Go services, define architectural direction and work closely with product and delivery teams to raise the bar across the partner network.

As a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, you'll champion best practices, contribute to reliability and observability, and collaborate across a global engineering community using Kubernetes, AWS and

Qualifications

• Extensive Go experience in production services.
• Experience with event-driven distributed systems.
• Production AWS experience incl on-call and observability.
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) background.
• Ownership of end-to-end features and architecture.
• Mentoring engineers and running learning sessions.
• Effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tooling.
• Pair programming experience.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar container platforms.
• Strong collaboration with product and delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production Go services.
• Set technical direction and architectural decisions.
• Support product and delivery teams.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

Skills

Golang

Mentoring

TDD

Ownership

Communication

Pair programming

AI-assisted development

Leadership

Tools

Kafka

AWS

DynamoDB

S3

Datadog

Grafana

Kubernetes

SQS

SNS

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

Claude Code

Kiro

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Golang engineer to help scale our event-driven platform. You will build production-grade Go services, define architectural direction and work closely with product and delivery teams to raise the bar across the partner network.

As a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, you'll champion best practices, contribute to reliability and observability, and collaborate across a global engineering community using Kubernetes, AWS and