Senior Golang Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements

• Extensive Go experience: Substantial commercial experience (5+ years) writing clean, highly efficient, and testable code in Go.
• Architectural event-driven expertise: Deep expertise in architecting microservices and event-driven systems, with a mastery of eventual consistency and distributed architecture.
• An SRE mindset: We care deeply about system reliability after code goes live, with a strong focus on improving production services and incident response.
• AWS cloud services leadership: Advanced hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable systems using Amazon Web Services, including DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and S3.
• AI-assisted development: We are highly comfortable leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate workflow, architect scaffolding, and debug complex distributed issues.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead in Go: Architect, develop, and maintain robust, high-throughput microservices and complex features in Go.
• Drive system design and architecture: Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable solutions, shape the wider integration architecture, and steer technical discussions.
• Champion system health: Define observability standards and lead weekly signal channel reviews to identify, investigate, and proactively resolve production anomalies before they impact partners.
• Elevate engineering standards: Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, lead collaborative debugging sessions for complex problems, and drive best practices across the engineering team.
• Collaborate across teams: Partner strategically with product and delivery teams to ensure integrations roll out smoothly and reliably across international markets.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Web
• microservices
• Golang

More:

We are Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET), a leading global online food delivery marketplace connecting millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners across the globe. Our mission is to empower every food moment around the world. We offer an international, fun, fast-paced, and supportive environment where our teams work with some of the best-known brands on the planet. We are committed to inclusion, diversity, and belonging, creating a culture where everyone can feel they truly belong and bring their authentic selves to work.

last updated 41 week of 2026