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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.\nSenior Software Engineer, Full Stack - New Verticals\nJoin us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day.\nFrom real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale.\nWe partner with some of the largest grocery retailers in the world, as well as a large number of small independent grocers. \nIn November 2023 we launched our non-food retail offering, Deliveroo ‘Shopping’, where we work with large and small merchants. We oversee all operations within the grocery and retail ecosystem, ensuring stores are equipped to receive and efficiently process orders. Our solutions empower stores to manage orders seamlessly through multiple channels, including our in-house app, API integration, and devices pre-installed with our software. Additionally, we provide tools to maintain and update product catalogs, ensuring accurate inventory for consumers. The technology we’ve developed enables our partners to pick the correct items swiftly while keeping inventory data current, optimizing both efficiency and accuracy.\nWe’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack to join our London team. In this role, you’ll help us build and scale seamless, high-performance features that span our entire stack, ensuring a world-class experience for our customers, partners, and riders.\nGet to know our Engineering team - what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nThis role is based in our London office with a hybrid setup, typically 3 days in the office.\nHere’s what your day-to-day might look like:\nDrive technical execution by designing, building, and scaling backend services and frontend components that handle high-traffic workloads (20krpm and above).\n\nLead architectural improvements and code reviews, ensuring the efficiency, visibility, and operational health of your team's systems.\n\nPartner with cross-functional disciplines (PMs, Experience Designers) to plan projects, foresee dependencies, and mitigate technical risks.\n\nBreak down complex problems into deliverable choices, influencing the roadmap and technical direction within your team.\n\nSupport the growth of others by mentoring colleagues and taking an active role in our engineering hiring process to build high-performing teams.\n\nWhat You’ll Need to Thrive\nOur ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:\nSignificant experience building web-based applications in a modern stack; we use Go, Ruby, Python, and Scala, and we’re looking for someone keen to work across them.\n\nProven ability to design and operate web architecture at scale, specifically with systems handling significant request volumes.\n\nDemonstrated ownership of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and experience with \"NoSQL\" backends such as Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch.\n\nA commitment to software craft, with a pride in writing readable, well-designed, and thoroughly tested code.\n\nStrong collaborative leadership skills, with a track record of guiding implementation choices and supporting the personal growth of teammates.\n\nWhy Join Us?\nAt 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:\nSolve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.\nSee your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.\nGrow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.\nA culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.\nShare in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.\nWant a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog.\nWe 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.\nDiversity, Equity and Inclusion\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nIf 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. 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