Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are

Our ambition is to be the definitive food company, feeding people three times a day with great food from the World’s best-loved restaurants, all with an unparalleled level of convenience.

From distributed computing to large-scale system design, complex algorithms to beautiful user interfaces, we have teams working on every step of the journey to ensure we continue to offer our customers a growing selection of choice at the best price with a fantastic level of service.

We work with thousands of restaurants worldwide, from renowned local gems to your favourite chains, allowing them to open up a new revenue stream and reach new customers. Our restaurant partners, riders and customers are as passionate about food as we are, and if you want to make an impact on millions of users by solving some of the biggest technical challenges at great scale, come on board and join the ride.

The Team

At Deliveroo we’re striving to build one of the world’s best engineering organisations.

We’re dedicated to building a collaborative and supportive culture. We set goals and objectives. We empower our engineers to find solutions to problems at great scale. We trust them to use their time wisely.

Our teams are solving unique and difficult problems at scale in an energetic and fast-paced environment. We’re growing incredibly quickly and we need experienced engineers to help us scale.

We’re looking for software engineers who can have a transformative influence on the way we build, operate and run our database infrastructure. 

What will you do?

• Design and build the systems automation required to allow Deliveroo to manage and operate our large-scale cloud database estate.
• Work closely with DBAs to gain expertise in database engineering practices and technologies. 
• Develop best practices, tools, and libraries to make the AWS database ecosystem  easier to use and more reliable for product teams.

Expectations

Technical Execution

• You will be considered an expert in at least one relevant technical area, sought out for reviews and advice by multiple teams and colleagues.
• Your work will also include forecasting and managing project timelines and risks, and setting a sustainable and incremental team pace.
• It means that you will define the technical solutions for important business problems and understand the context in which large company decisions are made.

Collaboration & Leadership

• A part of the Staff Engineer’s scope is aligning non-adjacent teams and disciplines to resolve unstructured and ambiguous challenges. This extends to coaching other folks across all levels and supporting up-and-coming leaders in the team.
• You will lead the technical direction of their team, and influence the strategic direction and build non-adjacent team relationships.
• Staff Engineers are calibrated to lead all types of engineering interviews, to help guide the understanding of the Deliveroo bar for all lower levels which often requires contribution in other recruiting areas outside of interviewing.

We want to emphasise that we don’t expect you to meet all of the below but would love you to have experience in some of these areas.

• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software
• Familiarity and practical experience with both relational and “NoSQL” databases such as Postgresql, DynamoDB and Redis
• A strong background in software engineering, preferably with Go and/or Python
• Practical experience in cloud engineering, preferably AWS

Benefits And Diversity

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer multiple great benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups around.