Staff Software Engineer - Code Foundations

About this role

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day. From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Code Foundations to join our London team. In this role, you’ll help us build the systems and standards that define what “good” looks like across our global codebase, empowering thousands of engineers to ship with velocity and confidence. Get to know our Engineering https://careers.deliveroo.co.uk/software-engineering-at-deliveroo/ team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING You'll be joining the Code Foundations team, part of the Developer Platform group within the Foundations organisation, and reporting directly to its Director of Engineering. We empower 5,000+ engineers across DoorDash and its subsidiaries to ship faster without sacrificing quality by providing development environments, build pipelines, agentic development tools and SDUI in the mobile space. Here’s what your day-to-day might look like: - Leading the AI-Native Transformation: Identifying and implementing areas inside the group that would benefit from leveraging AI, from developer support to testing to prototyping. Working closely with teams across the group and stakeholders across the business at all levels of seniority to land the impact of the changes while ensuring everyone is brought along on the journey. - Embedding AI in Developer Workflows: Deliver consistent, trusted, and reproducible AI-assisted ways of working across all 5 teams in the group, in areas ranging from mobile development to developer tooling. - 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 metrics to track efficiency improvements through initiatives grounded in data and influencing engineering standards across a distributed, global organisation. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO THRIVE Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: - Excellent communication: Proven storytelling and narrative skills that will align the group behind a vision and ensure everyone is brought along for the journey. - Systems thinking: Demonstrated ability to design, build and operate complex systems or toolchains requiring the coordination of many stakeholders at large scale. - Strong business lens: Clear ability to look beyond the technical space and understand its impact on the business, and be able to translate organisational business goals into concrete team initiatives. - Significant experience in Go or similar: Strong software engineering fundamentals with a proven track record of building and operating production systems in Go or similar modern languages. Any experience with TypeScript, Kotlin, and Python is also beneficial. - Platform Engineering or Developer Experience mindset: Demonstrated ownership of large-scale codebases or shared developer platforms and frameworks used by many distributed teams. - Forward-looking Technical Vision: Familiarity with state-of-the-art agentic AI development workflows and the ability to translate ambiguous quality concerns into reproducible technical controls. WHY JOIN US? At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to: 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day. 🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment. 🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support. 🌎 A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning. 💰 Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make. ➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog https://deliveroo.engineering. We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here https://careers.deliveroo.co.uk/interview-guide-for-engineers/ to help you feel confident at each stage. OUR GLOBAL STRUCTURE Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team. DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief. If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve sub