Senior Software Engineer - New Verticals

London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 30, 2026

At a glance

Join Deliveroo's New Verticals team in London as a Senior Software Engineer to help transform the way people shop and eat.
In this role, you will help improve code structure and architecture while leading team project planning to maximise efficiency and reliability across production systems.

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.

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.