Senior Golang Engineer — Platform Architect & Mentor

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a senior Golang engineer to join our Bracknell engineering hub, focused on scaling our event-driven microservices in a Kubernetes/AWS environment. You will own features end-to-end, set architectural direction, and mentor teammates across the product delivery cycle.

You’ll work primarily in Golang with Kafka, AWS services, and on-call reliability, contributing to a fast-growing, international marketplace that powers millions of food moments every day.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Golang in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven distributed systems.
• On-call/incident response experience on AWS.
• Mentoring engineers and sharing knowledge with teams.

Responsibilities

• Build new features in Golang within microservices.
• Make architectural decisions and set technical direction.
• Support product and delivery teams throughout projects.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, and document learnings.

Skills

Golang

Event-driven

AWS

Kubernetes

Test-Driven Development

Mentoring

Communication

Pair programming

Tools

Kafka

SQS/SNS

RabbitMQ

DynamoDB

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a senior Golang engineer to join our Bracknell engineering hub, focused on scaling our event-driven microservices in a Kubernetes/AWS environment. You will own features end-to-end, set architectural direction, and mentor teammates across the product delivery cycle.

You’ll work primarily in Golang with Kafka, AWS services, and on-call reliability, contributing to a fast-growing, international marketplace that powers millions of food moments every day.