Senior Golang Engineer — Scalable Event-Driven Platform

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London Borough of Barking and Dagenham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to strengthen our integration platform. You will build event-driven microservices in Golang, run on Kubernetes with AWS services, and help shape the platform’s technical direction.

You will mentor mid-level and junior engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and collaborate closely with product and delivery teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Golang and building production services.
• Experience with event-driven distributed systems (HTTP/REST, async messaging, eventual consistency).
• Proven track record running services in production on AWS and observability practices.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Ownership of problems end-to-end and ability to mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Build features in Golang for the core platform.
• Make architectural decisions and set technical direction.
• Support product and delivery teams.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers; share learning materials and run sessions.

Skills

Golang

Event-driven systems

AWS

Kubernetes

TDD

Mentoring

Communication

AI-assisted development

Pair programming

Architecture ownership

Projects leadership

Tools

Kafka

SQS/SNS

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to strengthen our integration platform. You will build event-driven microservices in Golang, run on Kubernetes with AWS services, and help shape the platform’s technical direction.

You will mentor mid-level and junior engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and collaborate closely with product and delivery teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.