Staff Software Engineer - Code Foundations

Deliveroo
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Ownership","Collaboration","Data-driven","Problem-solving"]

Lead and shape quality controls for a large Go-based production codebase in Deliveroo’s Foundation Platform Engineering team. Architect scalable quality gates, reduce technical debt, and empower thousands of engineers with AI-assisted development, CI/CD integrations, and data-driven improvements across a global codebase.

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Deliveroo
Deliveroo
4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Code Foundations

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Job Summary

Lead and shape quality controls for a large Go-based production codebase in Deliveroo’s Foundation Platform Engineering team. Architect scalable quality gates, reduce technical debt, and empower thousands of engineers with AI-assisted development, CI/CD integrations, and data-driven improvements across a global codebase.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architecting Quality Systems: Deliver consistent, trusted, and reproducible test coverage reporting for Go services, replacing legacy tooling and integrating cleanly into CI/CD and pull request workflows.
  • •Defining Automated Gates: Design and implement explicit, enforceable, and scalable quality gates across thousands of repositories to ensure high standards by default.
  • •Reducing Technical Debt: Build systems to identify unused code, weakly exercised paths, and uninstrumented logic to reduce structural complexity and improve system health.
  • •Powering AI-Assisted Development: Encode gating rules and quality expectations into agentic development workflows, ensuring AI-generated code meets the same rigorous standards as human-written code.
  • •Driving Engineering Excellence: Use data to track improvements in coverage trust and first-time quality gate passes, influencing engineering standards across a distributed, global organisation.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience in Go and production systems
  • •Platform Engineering mindset with ownership of large-scale codebases
  • •Experience designing automated quality controls (static analysis, linting, policy enforcement, code scanning)
  • •Strong understanding of technical debt and maintainability
  • •Familiarity with agentic AI development workflows and reproducible technical controls
Experience:Food deliveryLogisticsMarketplacePlatform engineering
Skills:OwnershipCollaborationData-drivenProblem-solving
Tech Stack:GoTypeScriptKotlinPythonCI/CDStatic analysisLintingCode scanning

Company Brief

Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a multinational online food and grocery delivery marketplace connecting consumers, restaurants, retailers and riders via its app and platform, operating across multiple countries with fast local delivery and logistics services.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2013
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