Software Engineer
Job Description
Ready for a challenge?
Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.
Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
About this role
At Just Eat Takeaway.com, we connect millions of customers with their favorite food every day. When something goes wrong, our resolution team steps in to make it right.
As a Software Engineer, you'll build the smart, highly scalable systems that handle refunds, cancellations, and customer communications efficiently. Using modern architecture based on event-driven microservices and Domain-Driven Design you’ll help us "Lead, Deliver, and Care" by putting teamwork and customer trust first.
These are some of the key components to the position:
Design, build, and maintain highly scalable backend microservices using a variety of technologies. to resolve customer issues.
Collaborate with product managers, specialists, and developers to deliver robust, customer-centric solutions.
Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, ensuring the stability of existing products.
Drive engineering excellence by producing clean, testable, and well-documented code.
Participate in code reviews to maintain high coding standards.
Optimize architecture for maximum speed and scalability.
Take full ownership of new features, from initial architectural design through to deployment and monitoring in production.
Embrace and drive the adoption of Agentic AI tools and best practices to accelerate development velocity and automate routine engineering tasks.
What will you bring to the team?
Good communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with others.
Experience with Agile methodologies, like Scrum or Kanban with a mindset geared toward iterative delivery.
Strong knowledge of architectural principles, design patterns and best coding practices, practical ability to deliver them to our fast-paced environment
Proven experience of software engineering in either Java or C# with enterprise frameworks such as Spring or .Net .
Experience with databases, such as MySQL or DynamoDB.
Understanding of version control systems, like Git.
Awareness of continuous delivery in cloud infrastructure Using Docker, K8s, AWS
Familiarity with event streaming frameworks (like Kafka or SQS) is a big plus.
Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges in production environments, leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools
Willingness to learn, adapt, and grow within a collaborative, fast-moving engineering environment.
At JET, this is how we play
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.
At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging
No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
What else are we delivering?
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