Software Engineer II - New Verticals

About the role

Deliveroo is looking for a Software Engineer to join its London team, which works on the non-food retail offering, Deliveroo Shopping. You will help build and maintain high-performance systems that power the hyper-local marketplace, with a hybrid setup of typically 3 days in the office.

Key responsibilities

• Improve code structure and architecture, develop, release and run large-scale web applications while moving the monolithic codebase toward a microservice-based architecture
• Plan projects by foreseeing dependencies and risks, partnering with Product and Design, and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security of backend systems
• Build relationships across global engineering teams and influence the wider technical roadmap
• Mentor colleagues and take an active part in engineering interviews to scale the team

Required profile

• Significant experience building web-based applications
• Experience managing web architecture at scale (20k requests per minute and above)
• Experience breaking down large pieces of work and guiding implementation choices for a team of engineers
• Curiosity to grow in areas outside your current expertise

Required skills

• Proficiency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor across the full software development lifecycle
• Backend languages: Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala and Rust
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL backends such as Redis, DynamoDB or ElasticSearch