Web Platform Engineer

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global online delivery platform is seeking a Web Platform Engineer to enhance customer experiences through full stack development. This hybrid role is based in either Bristol or Berlin, requiring expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frameworks. The ideal candidate will contribute to engineering solutions, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and improve developer experiences. Join a dynamic team committed to creating inclusive culture and innovative technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience as a web or automation engineer.
• Ability to work across the full stack from frontend to backend.
• Quality-focused with practical testing experience.

Responsibilities

• Engineer technology for customer-facing websites.
• Build and maintain development pipelines.
• Monitor platform performance and reliability.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

NextJS

React

AWS Lambda

GitHub Actions

Cloudflare Workers

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

We work at scale to deliver web experiences to millions of customers across the globe. The Web Foundations team is the backbone of how we develop, integrate and release our customer-facing web applications at JET.

In this Web Platform Engineer role, you will own and contribute to the entire engineering lifecycle, across the full stack. This includes building core frameworks and integrations, optimizing our CI/CD pipelines and observability, and implementing the system architecture that enables our domain teams to ship customer facing features

We are looking for somebody who wants to build industry leading technology solutions and who can do so with a service based mindset - understanding our internal customers complex needs and being able to scope and implement the best solution every time.

Here is a quick overview of our tech stack.

• We build our customer website using NextJS & React, Node and Module Federation. They are hosted on containers and edge networks.
• Our extensive CI/CD pipelines are built with Github Actions.
• We build serverless features using technologies like AWS Lambda with SQS and SNS and also build on the Cloudflare Platform utilising features like Cloudflare Workers.
• We predominantly use DataDog & Sentry for observability.

Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from our Bristol or Berlin office & 2 days working from home

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Become part of our journey to engineer industry leading technology for our customer facing website.
• Build, maintain and extend our pipelines, processes and tools to provide a powerful catalogue of services & capabilities to internal teams.
• Monitor and improve the developer experience offered by the services that we provide.
• Observe the performance and reliability of our platform to ensure consistently great experiences for all of our customers.
• Stay abreast with the latest industry developments and standards and find ways we can leverage them.
• Advocate for best practices and support their adoption within our teams and wider engineering community.
• Document and demonstrate to share knowledge with our engineering department so we can maintain and strengthen our collaborative culture.

What will you bring to the team?

• A background as a web or automation engineer with expertise in core technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript and modern frameworks.
• Ability or desire to work across the full stack from frontend to backend and automation.
• You are quality focused and have practical experience testing your code.
• You have a great attention to detail and can break down complex problems into smaller pieces.
• You work well in a collaborative environment with other (potentially remote) engineers and stakeholders.
• You are able to give and receive feedback in a positive and constructive manner, including on Pull Requests.

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.

Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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