Senior Golang Engineer — Platform Architect & Mentor

Just Eat Takeaway.com; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is hiring a senior Golang engineer to join our scalable integration platform. You’ll build features in Go and drive architectural decisions, ensuring reliable service for thousands of partners.

You will mentor engineers, help shape engineering standards, and collaborate with product and delivery teams in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment. Strong experience with Golang, AWS, and Kubernetes is essential, as is a track record in on-call incident response, TDD, and

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Go (Golang)
• Experience with event-driven distributed systems and messaging
• Production experience on AWS including on-call and observability
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Ownership and end-to-end problem solving
• Mentoring engineers and sharing knowledge
• Clear communication and collaborative mindset
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools is a plus
• Pair programming experience and technical leadership would be a plus

Responsibilities

• Build new features in Golang for the core platform
• Make architectural decisions and set technical direction
• Support product and delivery teams to ensure reliable delivery
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and shape team practices

Skills

Golang

Event-driven architecture

AWS

Kubernetes

On-call/incident response

TDD

Mentoring

Communication

AI tooling

Pair programming

Tools

Kafka

SQS/SNS

Pub/Sub

DynamoDB

S3

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is hiring a senior Golang engineer to join our scalable integration platform. You’ll build features in Go and drive architectural decisions, ensuring reliable service for thousands of partners.

You will mentor engineers, help shape engineering standards, and collaborate with product and delivery teams in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment. Strong experience with Golang, AWS, and Kubernetes is essential, as is a track record in on-call incident response, TDD, and