Senior Software Engineer (Backend)- Merchants
London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo
About the role
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our London team to help improve code structure and architecture.
- In this role, you’ll lead team project planning to maximise efficiency and reliability across our production systems.
Responsibilities
- Drive Technical Excellence: Improve code structure and architecture across your team’s remit, performing high-impact code reviews to ensure quality and scalability.
- Lead Project Planning: Foresee dependencies and risks, partnering closely with Product and Design to ensure smooth delivery of complex features.
- Optimise Operations: Simplify the maintenance and operation of production systems, promoting visibility, health, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate & Influence: Build relationships across engineering teams to identify collaboration opportunities and influence the wider technical roadmap.
- Mentor & Hire: Support the personal growth of your colleagues through technical guidance and take an active role in conducting engineering interviews to scale our team.
Requirements
- Strong Engineering Principles: Deep pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software.
- Backend Expertise: Significant experience building web-based applications.
- Data Proficiency: Practical experience with relational databases and NoSQL backends.
- Systems at Scale: Proven ability to manage web architecture at scale.
- Technical Leadership: Experience breaking down large pieces of work and guiding implementation choices for a team of engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity options
Workplace
- Hybrid - 3 days from the office
Skills
- Go
- Ruby
- Rails
- Python
- Scala
- Rust
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- DynamoDB
- ElasticSearch
- Salesforce
