Fullstack Engineer, Growth

Description

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.

About the Role

We're building the definitive online food company, transforming the way the world eats by making hyper-local food more convenient and accessible. We obsess about building the future of food, whilst using our network as a force for good. We're at the forefront of an industry, powered by our market-leading technology and unrivalled network to bring incredible convenience and selection to our customers.

Working at Deliveroo is the perfect environment to build a definitive career, motivated by impact. Firstly, the impact that working here will have on your development, allowing you to grow faster than you might elsewhere; secondly, the impact that you can have on Deliveroo, leaving your mark as we scale; and finally, being part of something bigger, through the impact that we make together in our marketplace and communities.

This role is based in our London office with a hybrid setup, typically 3 days in the office.

Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

Responsibilities

• As a Software Engineer at Deliveroo, your individual work contributes to achieving goals in and across your team. While you will work with your team and you may lead projects, some of your work will contribute outside of your direct remit. You will report to managers and group leads and together deliver the results.
• Technical Execution:
• You will improve code structure, have an impact on architecture, and review code of any scope produced by your team.
• You'll aim to simplify the maintenance and operation of production systems, visibility, operational readiness, and health of your team's systems.
• Collaboration & Leadership:
• As well as leading from the front regarding technical execution, you'll build relationships with other engineering teams and, identify collaboration opportunities.
• You'll own larger pieces of work, assist with design and technical / implementation choices and influence the roadmap within your team.
• You will take an active role in the hiring process and conducting engineering interviews. This will also extend to the current team where you will support the personal growth of colleagues, encouraging efficiency in their roles.
• Expectations:
• We want to emphasise that we don't expect you to meet all of the below but would love you to have experience in some of these areas.
• Strong fullstack experience — comfortable working across backend (Go, or similar) and web frontend (React/TypeScript) to unblock delivery end-to-end
• Experience designing, implementing and rolling out A/B experiments (or strong aptitude to quickly learn our experimentation platform) — including guardrail metrics, staged rollouts and reading results
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities and short XP cycles (weeks, not quarters)
• Strong ownership mindset — able to take a brief/RFC through design, implementation, rollout and production monitoring with minimal hand-holding
• Track record of shipping incrementally and iterating on data rather than big-bang launches
• Willing to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents

Benefits

• 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 organisers, proud parents, 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.