Backend Developer

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.
Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As a Backend Engineer within our Grocery & Retail Domain, your work will be the face of one of the world’s leading food delivery companies, primarily for our customer-facing apps. You will join a dynamic, highly collaborative global engineering group distributed across international tech hubs to help unlock new opportunities for our partners and enhance our customers’ experience.
At JET, AI isn't just a buzzword - it's at the core of how we build. In this role, you will actively pioneer AI-driven engineering by designing, developing, and integrating custom AI skills, specialized developer tools, and autonomous AI agents into our software development workflows and global backend systems, dramatically accelerating innovation and redefining productivity.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

Collaborate across cross-functional distributed teams worldwide to design and deliver robust, microservices-based backend architectures;
Architect and implement custom AI agents, tools, and developer skills that automate backend workflows and empower engineering teams globally;
Build scalable APIs and event-driven architectures powering high-traffic customer and partner interactions on a global scale;

What will you bring to the table?

3+ years of hands-on experience with a common backend framework (preferably .NET Core)

Proficiency in services architecture, messaging and asynchronous systems.
Experience in relational and non-relational databases
Understanding cloud services (storage, messaging, etc.), containers and Kubernetes
Practical experience or strong enthusiasm for leveraging AI coding tools, developing custom AI skills/agents, and adopting agentic development workflows
English – Good spoken and written communication skills

At JET, this is on the menu:
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & 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.

What else is cooking?
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Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!