Job description
Senior Software Engineer (m/w/d)
Company Overview
Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online food delivery platform. Our vision is to empower everyday convenience, connecting tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
Job Summary
Our Logistics Engineering department is responsible for the entire delivery lifecycle of millions of orders and supporting our vast network of couriers. The Courier Onboarding team plays a critical role in this mission as the front-door for new applicants. As a Senior member of our team, you'll be instrumental in developing high-impact product features, setting technical direction, and ensuring the architectural integrity of essential services.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain highly scalable, robust, and performant backend services using Java, ensuring system resilience and operational excellence.
- Serve as a technical leader in feature development, driving complex projects from inception through deployment and post-release monitoring.
- Conduct rigorous code reviews, providing constructive feedback and enforcing high standards for code quality, design patterns, and system architecture.
- Drive architectural discussions and technical roadmap planning, influencing the long-term strategy and health of our systems.
- Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, other Engineering teams) to define requirements, design interfaces, and deliver cohesive, effective solutions.
- Expertly troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues in a high-traffic, distributed microservices environment.
- Mentor and coach mid-level and junior engineers on technical design, engineering best practices, and effective problem-solving.
- Proactively identify and lead initiatives for refactoring, performance optimization, and improvement of development processes (CI/CD, testing methodologies).
- Define and implement comprehensive unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure the quality and reliability of developed features.
- Maintain and enhance continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Strong demonstrable experience developing and maintaining production-grade backend applications using Java 11+ (or similar modern versions).
- Strong proficiency with the Quarkus framework, or deep experience with Spring/Spring Boot.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating microservices architectures and resilient, high-volume RESTful APIs.
- Proven track record of mentoring junior engineers, driving engineering best practices, and cultivating a collaborative team environment.
- Expertise with relational databases, including advanced knowledge of data persistence, complex query optimization, schema migration, and effective data modelling for scale.
- Deep and practical understanding of software engineering principles, including distributed systems design, concurrency, security best practices, and advanced testing methodologies.
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges in production environments, leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Commitment to staying current with new technologies and best practices within the Java and cloud-native backend development ecosystems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB).
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with front-end technologies (React) or acting as a full-stack liaison.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
Equal Opportunity Statement
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.
