Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Merchants

About the Position

Join Deliveroo as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Merchants in London, contributing to a global team transforming the food and shopping experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive Technical Excellence: Improve code structure and architecture across your team’s remit, performing high-impact code reviews to ensure quality and scalability.
• Lead Project Planning: Foresee dependencies and risks, partnering closely with Product and Design to ensure smooth delivery of complex features.
• Optimise Operations: Simplify the maintenance and operation of production systems, promoting visibility, health, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate & Influence: Build relationships across engineering teams to identify collaboration opportunities and influence the wider technical roadmap.
• Mentor & Hire: Support the personal growth of your colleagues through technical guidance and take an active role in conducting engineering interviews to scale our team.

Requirements

• Strong Engineering Principles: Deep pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software.
• Backend Expertise: Significant experience building web-based applications (we use Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, and Rust).
• Data Proficiency: Practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and "NoSQL" backends like Redis, DynamoDB, or ElasticSearch.
• Systems at Scale: Proven ability to manage web architecture at scale (handling 20krpm and above).
• Technical Leadership: Experience breaking down large pieces of work and guiding implementation choices for a team of engineers.

Why Join Us?

At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters-solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. Working here you can expect to:

🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.

🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.

🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.

🌎 A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.

💰 Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.

About the Company

Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team.

MX Intelligence builds the tools DoorDash, Deliveroo and Wolt use to find, sign and onboard restaurants and merchants. That covers identifying and matching prospective merchants through to the CRM, quoting and contracting tools sales teams use to bring them onto the platform. We’re replacing a Salesforce-based stack with one first-party platform shared across all three brands.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.

We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.

If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!

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