Deliveroo is on a mission to transform the way the world thinks about food delivery. It’s not a chicken chow mein and a night on the sofa anymore, it’s your favourite local restaurant, it’s a dinner party, a date.We’re four years in, and along the way our team have taken hundreds of ideas from brainstorms to global rollouts, like Deliveroo Editions bespoke kitchens designed to host a locally curated selection of restaurants. Editions are our solution to ensuring that our customers have access to the best of the food scene, no matter where they live.And that’s just what we’re like at Deliveroo, no compromise allowed and lots of food inspired challenges to get your teeth into. Out of the box thinking is actively encouraged and we move quickly to make great ideas happen. We’re energetic, fast paced and blow off steam with free for all Friday lunches. It’s a formula that’s working too we’re bringing great food to customers in 12 countries and over 100 cities. The Role At Deliveroo we’re striving to build London’s best engineering organisation. Our teams are solving unique and difficult problems at scale in an energetic and hyper-growth environment. We’re growing incredibly quickly, and we need experienced Platform Engineers to help our platform engineering team to innovate and scale. As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role within our Product team. We have a “customer-first, live service-first” mindset, and we enable our teams to affect change with speed, ease & confidence. The reliability of our Deliveroo service, innovation in our production platform, and “engineer happiness” in our toolchain are our biggest priorities. You will need excellent software development or systems engineering skills, a passion for solving the problems of our fellow engineers, to enjoy working in a constantly evolving start-up, and steering the strategic direction of crucial functions like service reliability and infrastructure management. Responsibilities: You’ll work in our Platform Engineering team, utilising AGILE best practice You’ll build platform products and tools and improve existing ones (tech products that is…not meals) You’ll take part in decisions related to how we undertake new projects You’ll gather requirements and scope out projects with the rest of the team You’ll work closely with our fellow engineers, designers, QA and others Requirements Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software OR scripts Experience with TDD environments (RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, Selenium) Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis) 2 or more years professional experience writing web-based applications and a willingness to quickly get up to speed on our stack (Ruby/Rails, Python or Scala) OR 2 or more years professional “DevOps” experience managing toolchains and cloud-based production environments and a willingness to quickly get up to speed on our stack (Ruby/Rails, Python or Scala) Nice to haves: Experience with containerisation and infrastructure management in a large engineering org Experience with AWS or Azure clouds and the relevant “DevOps” services and tools Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems Experience with front-end web technology, bonus points for React Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above) Experience with “NoSQL” data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch) Experience with Go or Ruby and/or Rails Experience solving logistical problems with software Benefits Free food and LOTS of it Access to Deliveroo Plus (no delivery fee on all orders) A brand new extremely impressive and fun office complete with nap room, onsite gym, basketball court and a roof top overlooking Tower Bridge Subsidised gym membership Top-notch kit. Bring your own or we’ll get you a shiny new Macbook and stuff. An extremely fun team to work alongside Abundance of great online learning courses delivered by global universities We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are – your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing start ups around.