Principal Software Engineer

Deliveroo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their team. As a Principal Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in steering and boosting company-level goals and metrics. You'll be expected to break down, plan, estimate, and ship very complex work at pace, touching almost all teams. Your impact will be significant, producing designs that change how Deliveroo works and setting business-wide standards on how their products function.

Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and solving the most difficult problems, providing world-class feedback that improves Deliveroo.
• Leading efforts outside of your direct team's remit, benefiting the entire tech department.
• Aligning all of the tech to meet complex goals and being viewed as a key technical leader throughout the entire business.
• Developing familiarity with large parts of Deliveroo's products and technology, reasoning about complex dependencies and interactions across the company.
• Leading all types of engineering interviews and contributing to other recruiting areas.

The ideal candidate should have experience in:

• Writing readable, well-designed, well-tested software
• Developing web-based applications (with interest in learning Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, or Rust)
• Working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Handling web architecture at scale (20krpm and above)
• Using "NoSQL" data backends and key-value stores (Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Memcache)
• Solving logistical problems with software

Deliveroo offers a range of benefits (varying by country) including healthcare, well-being support, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances. They are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, welcoming candidates regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion, or other personal characteristics.

This is a hybrid role based in Hyderabad or Bangalore, India. Candidates should be prepared to work in a fast-paced, rapidly expanding industry and contribute to one of the most interesting challenges in the food delivery sector.