Senior Golang Engineer: Platform & Partner Integration

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

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) is seeking a senior Golang engineer to connect Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway platform. You will build features in Golang, drive architectural decisions, and support cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship and production readiness in a fast-paced, international environment. You will work with event-driven microservices, Kafka, AWS services, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Golang and building production services.
• Experience with event-driven distributed systems and message queues (Kafka, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ).
• AWS production experience including on-call, incident response and observability.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Ownership beyond individual tickets and end-to-end problem ownership.
• Mentoring demonstrated by coaching engineers, running learning sessions or writing docs.
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical colleagues.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Kiro).
• Pair programming experience.
• Technical leadership experience (leading projects or architecture decisions) is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes or container platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build new features in Golang for the integration platform.
• Make key architectural decisions and set technical direction for the platform.
• Support product and delivery teams.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and help shape team practices.

Skills

Golang

Event-driven

AWS

TDD

Mentoring

Pair programming

Kubernetes

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

Kafka

SQS/SNS

Pub/Sub

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) is seeking a senior Golang engineer to connect Grocery Partners with the Just Eat Takeaway platform. You will build features in Golang, drive architectural decisions, and support cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship and production readiness in a fast-paced, international environment. You will work with event-driven microservices, Kafka, AWS services, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools.