Overview

Location: London, the UK - Hybrid

Deliveroo is building the definitive online food company, transforming the way the world eats by making hyper-local food more convenient and accessible. We obsess about building the future of food, whilst using our network as a force for good. We are at the forefront of an industry, powered by our market-leading technology and unrivalled network to bring incredible convenience and selection to our customers.

Working at Deliveroo offers the opportunity to grow your career with impact: on your development, on Deliveroo as we scale, and as part of our broader marketplace and communities.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo, your individual work contributes to goals across multiple teams. You will work with your team and lead projects, while some work may contribute outside your direct remit. You will report to managers and group leads and jointly deliver results.

Technical Execution

You will improve code structure and architecture, review code across scope produced by your team, and lead team project planning. You will foresee dependencies and risks and collaborate with other disciplines (e.g., PM, Experience). You will aim to simplify the maintenance and operation of production systems, promote visibility, operational readiness, and health of your team’s systems. You will build relationships with other engineering teams, identify collaboration opportunities, and break down large pieces of work, guiding design and technical/implementation choices and influencing the roadmap within your team. You will take an active role in the hiring process and in engineering interviews, and support the personal growth of colleagues to improve efficiency in their roles.

We don’t expect you to meet every item below, but it would be great to have experience in some of these areas:

• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software
• Experience writing web-based applications in any language, with an interest in learning (Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, or Rust)
• Familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Familiarity with web architecture at scale (20k rpm and above)
• Familiarity with NoSQL data backends and other technologies such as Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Memcached

Workplace & Diversity

At Deliveroo we prioritise the welfare of people and offer a range of benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth and relocation. We value diversity and inclusivity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. A competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package is provided.

Compensation

• We aim to pay every employee competitively for the role they are performing in their location
• Depending on role and location, some employees may be eligible for an annual cash bonus, sign-on bonus or relocation support
• Up to 5% matched pension contributions

Equity

• Some roles may be eligible for share awards, giving ownership in Deliveroo and a share in our success

Food

• Free Deliveroo Plus: free delivery and access to special offers
• Team lunches from the best local restaurants

Time away

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of time spent working at Deliveroo
• One day of paid leave per year to volunteer with a registered charity

Benefits

• Funded single cover healthcare on our core plan, with the option to add family members at own cost
• On-site gym (HQ), discounted external gym membership
• Access to wellbeing apps such as LesMills+, Strava, Headspace, Yogaia via GymPass
• Discounted dental insurance and a range of other flexible benefits, such as critical illness cover, partner life cover, travel insurance, health assessments
• Life assurance

Work Life

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave, eligible from day one of employment
• Excellent kit to enable working from home and a parent-friendly working culture
• Access to free mortgage advice
• Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loans
• Excellent learning and development opportunities and access to RooLearn, our learning platform
• Regular Employee Resource Group (ERG) led social events