Deliveroo
Staff Software Engineer - Full-Stack
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Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack
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 optimization, we design, build, and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack to join our London team (hybrid, 3 days from the office). In this role, you’ll help us define technical solutions for critical business problems and lead the technical direction for complex, high-scale systems.
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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 organization.
Here’s What Your Day-to-Day Might Look Like:
- Drive Technical Excellence: Act as a subject matter expert, providing high-level reviews and technical advice across multiple teams.
- Architect Scalable Solutions: Define and design technical solutions for complex business problems within a high-traffic environment (20k+ requests per minute).
- Lead Strategic Direction: Influence the long-term technical roadmap and manage project timelines, risks, and sustainable delivery paces.
- Mentor & Coach: Support the growth of engineers across all levels and partner with up-and-coming leaders to scale our engineering culture.
- Shape the Team: Lead engineering interviews and contribute to recruiting strategy to ensure we maintain a high bar for talent.
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What You’ll Need to Thrive
Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:
- Significant 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.
- Proven ability to design and operate web architecture at scale, specifically with systems handling significant request volumes.
- Demonstrated ownership of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and experience with "NoSQL" backends such as Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch.
- High-Scale Architecture: Proven ability to design and operate systems handling massive request volumes and complex logistical workflows.
- Strategic Leadership: Strong understanding of how to align multiple disciplines and teams to resolve ambiguous technical challenges.
Why Join Us?
At 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:
- 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale: Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.
- 🌱 See your impact, fast: Ship, test, and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.
- 🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership: Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.
- 🌎 A culture built for builders: High standards, collaboration, flexible working, and continuous learning.
- 💰 Share in the success you help create: Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.
- ➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog.
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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.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At 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.
We 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.
If 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. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!
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