Software Engineer 2 - Code Context

Software Engineer

Location: London, UK

Join Code Context, a team helping to shape the future of AI-powered work at Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt. You'll solve challenging technical problems and build tools that help employees work smarter, move faster, and deliver better outcomes across a global business serving millions of customers, riders, and partners.

Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll join an engineering-led team focused on a fundamental challenge in AI-assisted software development: giving coding agents the right context to work effectively. As a Software Engineer on the Code Context team, you’ll build developer tooling and infrastructure that connects AI agents with the knowledge, systems, and workflows they need. Your work will help every employee across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt make better use of AI in their day-to-day work.

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:

• Build Developer Tooling: Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and tooling that make relevant context accessible to AI coding agents across complex codebases and workflows.
• Own Technical Projects: Independently take technical projects from design through delivery and adoption, evaluating approaches, making sound technical decisions, and measuring their impact. Contribute to the team's technical direction in a fast-moving AI landscape.
• Build for Reliability & Scale: Ensure the systems behind our developer tooling remain reliable, performant, and secure as adoption grows. Use observability, feedback, and real-world usage to identify issues and continuously improve the developer experience.
• Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt to understand their challenges, identify opportunities, and drive adoption of AI-powered tooling.
• Support Peers & Grow: Share technical knowledge, provide constructive feedback, help unblock colleagues, and contribute to engineering interviews and hiring as the team grows.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:

• Strong Engineering Fundamentals: Experience building and operating production systems at scale, with a strong foundation in software architecture and a commitment to writing well-designed, well-tested, and maintainable code.
• AI-Native Engineering: Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) throughout the software development lifecycle, with a practical understanding of how agent harnesses manage tools, context, and execution.
• Autonomy & Judgement: You independently solve complex problems, navigate ambiguity, and communicate clearly across teams and time zones. You hold all your work, AI-assisted or otherwise, to high standards of quality and correctness.

Customer-Driven Iteration: You enjoy working directly with the people using your tools, understanding their workflows, gathering feedback, and using data to measure impact and continuously improve the experience.

• Dogfooding Mindset: You actively experiment with AI tools, build solutions to problems you encounter, and have informed opinions about what makes developer tooling good. You're curious about emerging capabilities and eager to put new ideas into practice.

Why Join Us?

At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. 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.

➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog.

We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here to help you feel confident at each stage.

Our Global Structure

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.

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!

USA: Pay Transparency Range: 130600.0 - 192000.0 USD
Canada: Pay Transparency Range: 120000.0 - 150000.0 CAD