Job Description:
Are you an experienced Frontend/Full Stack Developer with a passion for supporting developers and improving quality? Do you have a passion for building reliable and scalable web applications? Then keep reading, we have just the role for you…
Who we are!
We are Just Eat for Business. We make it easy for your teams to order great food for any occasion at home or in the office. So, what’s the Just Eat Takeaway group vision we hear you ask? Empowering your every food moment(through good food, however far apart)! Now more than ever, we need a team of diverse, passionate and hungry individuals to drive our group vision forward, one meal at a time. We need people like YOU, to be a part of our food revolution!
As part of the Just Eat Takeaway group, one of the Worlds largest food delivery groups, we deliver thousands of meals every day across the UK to some of the world’s most iconic brands – Peloton, Bumble and Zoom, to name a few. We work with a world of kitchens, over 600 of the best boutique chefs, street vendors, specialist caterers, iconic restaurants and supper clubs in the UK.
Are you an experienced full stack and/or frontend developer with a passion for supporting developers and improving quality? Do you have a passion for building reliable and scalable web applications? Then keep reading, we have just the role for you…
About the role
The Tech department design, builds and maintains all of the infrastructure and applications responsible for choosing and delivering 10,000+ meals every day. As a member of the Engineering function within Tech, you’ll be playing a key role in the design, implementation and maintenance of high-quality, robust solutions for our customer needs.
We work in cross-functional teams (Corporate, Eaters and Restaurants) that understand their customer needs in-depth, each with a unique set of upcoming projects. The Corporate team is looking to simplify ordering and invoicing for Enterprise-scale customers, the Eaters team is finding better ways of increasing engagement with the end consumers, and the Restaurants team is looking at integrations and kitchen-based solutions that can support nationally known brands. As an acquired startup with big growth plans, we're re-evaluating our previous choices and setting ourselves up for being able to deliver high quality, highly available systems as we scale.
As a Lead-level technologist, you’ll need to be a high-impact individual contributor that is adept at teaching and influencing other developers. You’ll work closely with Engineering management to make technical and cultural improvements that will have a lasting profound effect on the team. You’ll be supported by the Head of Engineering, with access to training and events throughout the year as well as take part in our biannual hackathons and regular share & learn team events.
Core responsibilities
- Understand the long-term product and technical vision of Just Eat for Business and how they can support it
- Implement major, non-trivial components, services or libraries with deep knowledge of the domain
- Manage your own schedule and deliver to estimates given
- Be an effective and inspiring communicator across multiple cross-functional teams where people have different backgrounds and skills
- Identify functional and non-functional requirements, identify conflicts among them and define possible trade-off scenarios
- Produce technical designs for large complex projects
- Be a major contributor for documentation and learning culture, instilling best practices and guidelines for the team
- Accountable for delivery of large, horizontal, mission critical engineering projects
- Clear blockers for more junior members of the team, provide context and guidance, and know when to escalate
- Keep up to date with industry developments and provide technical and non-technical feedback into the business
Who we’re looking for:
- A “strong opinions, weakly held” attitude
- Someone who multiplies the effectiveness of the people across the business
- Someone who does not put ego or their own agenda into their choices
- A good communicator who can converse with stakeholders, present their ideas and provide - - - feedback across the department
- Can explain when and when not to use an SPA
- Knows when to use PATCH vs a POST
- A frontend specialist - we use Angular and SCSS primarily but are keen to get greater diversity of experiences within the team
- Someone who’s comfortable with a wide range of technology - we have code written in - -
- Typescript, PHP, SCSS, Python, Terraform and shell script, and we use MongoDB Atlas, Docker, Google Cloud, Cloudflare plus more
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays), with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days). Oh, how could we forget? You also get an extra day off for your Birthday, so that you can celebrate in style!
- Hospitality discounts, cashback benefit portal access, charitable giving, discounted Gym membership, Private Medical insurance (including dental and optical, too) and much more
- To ensure we can help make your commute as enjoyable and seamless as possible, we offer cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes
- We care about protecting your future. That’s why we offer our employees Life insurance, Group Income protection and an incredible pension from anything between 5%-12%!
- Your health and wellbeing is important to us, too. We have great connections with a few employee assistance programmes that offer private counselling and information at the click of a button, to support you with anything you need
- We will be introducing a hybrid-working model later in the year, 3 days in our lovely city offices and 2 days working remote, wherever suits you. At the moment, we’re encouraging our teams to come in 2 days a week until then, and offer flexible working hours too!
- A Just Eat for Business special - we offer free delicious lunches to our teams twice a week here at the office, on the days that our teams come in! On top of that, you'll also receive your very own 'Just Eat Pay' card, to use around town on food and drink
- We want you to be the best you can be at work, and will support you with any development areas that you feel will leverage you in your role. We offer learning budgets here at Just -
- Eat for Business for any courses/training materials that you’d be interested in!
- An opportunity to meet more like-minded, passionate and diverse individuals who are part of our Employee Resource Group network (inclusive of BAME, LGBTQ+, Women in Tech, Parents, -
- Neurodiverse groups). It’s important for us to know you feel a sense of belonging - everyday and always.
- Fridays could not get any better - 4.30pm finishes for you to truly get the most out of your weekend. After all, you deserve it!
We want to let our candidates know that this role is based in London, UK and we will not be taking on any applications that are based outside of the UK (or that don't have an easy commute to our London HQ).
We also do not provide VISA sponsorships. Thank you.
Ready to join us as a Lead Software Engineer? Apply directly using the link here: https://careers.justeattakeaway.com/global/en/job/R_017025/Lead-Software-Engineer
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
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 and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
More about us
Want to know more about our company vision, culture or career growth opportunities? Have a look on our careers site.
Company Benefits
- Flexible Working Hours! We encourage regular breaks and being AFK (away from keyboard) to support your wellbeing
- £2000 annual development allowance, for you to spend on developing your current skills and learning new things
- Access to various Mental Health & Wellbeing platforms, including wellbeing sessions, online health checks, tools to provide exercises via UnMind, Sanctus and our Employee Assistance -
Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders within the business, available to assist you with anything regarding your mental health and wellbeing
- An opportunity to get involved with our Employee Resource Group programme with the Just Eat Group. We have everything available from BAME, LGBTQ+, Parents, Women in Tech, Neurodiversity etc...
- Group Income Protection and Group Life Assurance for all Full-time employees
- A selection of People-focused schemes, including ‘Cycle to Work’, ‘Eyecare’ and more, designed to give you an even better employee experience during your time at Just Eat for
Business
- Generous parental, adoption and/or foster care leave, so you’re able to spend important time with your new family.
- Automatically enrolled in to our Pension scheme after 3 months of employment, where you will contribute 5% (or more if preferred) and Just Eat for Business will contribute 3%
20% off Santander Cycles (annual membership)
And when we're back in the office, you’ll be entitled to all of the above as well as these perks below:
Free lunches twice a week from an amazing array of our London vendor partners
Regular company socials (COVID-19 guidelines permitting)
Five-A-Side Football Team & Netball Team
Wednesday evening cocktail clubs
'Gin and Learns' - an opportunity to learn more about your colleagues and their professions/departments
Consistent sweet treat deliveries
