Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack - New Verticals
Staff full-stack engineer at Deliveroo in London (hybrid, 3 days in office) acting as a technical authority for high-scale marketplace systems (20k+ rpm) — defining architecture, driving technical excellence across teams, and mentoring engineers. Stack includes Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, React, Rust, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL stores like Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Significant experience building web-based applications at scale
- Pride in writing readable, well-tested software
- Proficiency in (or strong desire to learn) languages such as Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, React or Rust
- Practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL backends (Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch)
- Proven ability to design and operate systems handling massive request volumes and complex logistical workflows
- Strong understanding of how to align multiple disciplines and teams to resolve ambiguous technical challenges
Nice to have
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers across all levels
- Experience leading engineering interviews and contributing to recruiting strategy
Full description
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.
About the Role
Join 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.
From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale.
In 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.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our London, UK - Hybrid (3 days from the office) team. In this role, you’ll help us define technical solutions for critical business problems and lead the technical direction for complex, high-scale systems.
Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll be joining a high-impact engineering group focused on solving unstructured and ambiguous challenges. You will act as a technical authority, aligning non-adjacent teams to deliver results that move the needle for the entire organisation.
Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:
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Drive Technical Excellence: Improve code structure and architecture across your team’s remit, developing, releasing and running large-scale web applications whilst transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
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Lead Project Planning: Foresee dependencies and risks, partnering closely with Product and Design to ensure smooth delivery of complex features, whilst defining the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area