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Senior Software Engineer

London
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Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food 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: 

We are looking for a Senior .NET Software Engineer to join a cross functional team who are driving our Retail Media offering within Just Eat Takeaway.com.

Retail Media are responsible for significant revenue generation within the company, and we’re expanding our engineering teams to meet our commercial & technology targets.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will drive our architecture, write highly scalable and testable code, mentoring engineers & challenging our teams to strive for excellence.  We work closely with a large number of other teams, with inner-sourced development as our standard way of working.  In our organisation ownership is one of our core engineering principles - we write it and we own it.  Engineers are expected to take responsibility for their work, including being part of an on-call rota to ensure the reliability of the system that we’re building.

Please note that this position is located in London & is 3 days a week in the office, the rest of the time is up to you!

These are some of the key components to the position:
 

Take a leading role in planning, designing & developing scalable enterprise solutions.

Collaborate with other cross functional engineers & engineering teams, as well as with key stakeholders to ensure we deliver exceptional user experiences.

Ensure our web applications are optimised for accessibility, performance & scalability.

Mentorship of software engineers.

Able to work independently, taking responsibility for the technical delivery of key technical initiatives within a given workstream.

Experience of writing highly scalable services, working in a microservices based architecture.  Experience of message queues or distributed systems would be a bonus!

Excellent communication & collaboration skills (we’re advocates of inner-sourced software development at JET!).

What will you bring to the team?
 

Strong C# development experience, with a strong understanding of the .NET ecosystem.

A strong understanding of cloud service providers, preferably AWS, however experience with Azure or GCP is fine.

Demonstrable experience in unit testing tools/frameworks (for example xUnit, NUnit, MSTest etc).

Experience in building RESTful APIs.

Familiarity with NoSQL databases.

Ability to debug and troubleshoot complex systems.

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.

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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?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET journeys.

 

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