Senior Staff Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer

Who We Are Deliveroo's mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders. As a technology-driven company at the forefront of the rapidly expanding food and commerce industry, we are on a journey to make access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable.

We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and are always seeking exceptional talent to help us build the best engineering organisation in London and beyond.

The Role We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to play a pivotal individual contributor role in building some of Deliveroo's most critical, scalable, and high-performance systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving deep technical problems, enjoys working across a globally distributed team, and has hands-on experience delivering large-scale, full-stack platforms in a fast-paced, B2C environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of resilient, scalable systems across backend, web, and mobile technologies.

• Act as a technical expert and hands-on contributor, driving complex, org-wide initiatives from concept to execution.

• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to define and deliver high-impact solutions.

• Review code, mentor engineers, and elevate technical excellence across the organisation.

• Influence and execute strategic engineering direction across multiple domains.

• Identify areas for improvement across system performance, reliability, and developer productivity.

• Help shape the adoption of modern technologies including Generative AI and Agentic AI frameworks for business-critical applications.

• Defines and executes strategies for company-wide AI tooling adoption.

• Builds custom AI-based solutions that significantly improve engineering velocity or system quality.

We’re Excited About You If You Have

• Deep technical expertise across the stack, with extensive hands-on experience in backend, mobile, and web development.

• Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in B2C domains.

• Strong knowledge of system architecture, performance engineering, observability, and cloud infrastructure.

• Experience with Java/Golang, Kotlin/Swift/ReactJS/ReactNative, AWS Cloud, Kafka.

• Strong understanding of AI-native software development, including real-world application of Gen AI/Agentic AI frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to work across globally distributed teams and drive alignment across stakeholders.

• A collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and ability to influence and mentor across all levels.

What Success Looks Like in 12 Months

• You’ve architected and delivered systems that scale to millions of users globally.

• Your contributions have materially improved system reliability, engineering velocity, or customer experience.

• You are recognized as a technical leader, helping shape engineering strategy across multiple teams.

• You've championed adoption of new technologies, including AI, in business-relevant ways.

Benefits & Perks We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including healthcare, wellbeing support, generous parental leave, time off for volunteering, and more (details vary by country).

Diversity Deliveroo celebrates diversity in all its forms and is committed to providing an inclusive and equitable hiring process. If you require adjustments to apply or interview, let us know – we’ll ensure you have what you need to succeed.

Come help us shape the future of food and commerce. Apply now.