Backend Platform Engineer – BI & Data Tools

Deliveroo; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Deliveroo is hiring a Backend Software Engineer for the Core BI team in London. You will build and operate backend services, APIs and infrastructure powering BI platforms like Looker/Sigma.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to production, with cross‑functional collaboration across data engineers, data scientists and product managers. You will work in a hybrid London office, tackling scalable backend challenges, improving reliability and applying AI tooling where it adds value, while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
• Readable, maintainable Python code with SQL and data warehousing concepts.
• Experience building and owning APIs, integrations or automation in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and operate backend services, APIs and automation for BI platforms.
• Own the platform lifecycle end-to-end: provisioning, migrations, permissions and validation.
• Build integrations between BI platforms and the wider ecosystem (identity, CI/CD, tooling).
• Improve availability, observability, performance, and security of owned systems in production.
• Leverage AI tooling where appropriate and maintain reliability and governance.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Okta

SCIM

dbt

Looker

Sigma

Job description

Deliveroo is hiring a Backend Software Engineer for the Core BI team in London. You will build and operate backend services, APIs and infrastructure powering BI platforms like Looker/Sigma.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to production, with cross‑functional collaboration across data engineers, data scientists and product managers. You will work in a hybrid London office, tackling scalable backend challenges, improving reliability and applying AI tooling where it adds value, while