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Principal Engineer, Data Platforms
£50,000 - 80,000
Just Eat Takeaway.com
Fleet Place 2, London
£50,000 - 80,000
Requirements
Must:
- Extensive experience in software and data engineering, with provable experience operating at a Principal, Staff, or equivalent level.
- Deep proficiency across the modern data stack (Snowflake, BigQuery, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Kafka, Flink).
- Proven track record designing scalable, self-service data platforms using cloud-native services (AWS/GCP) and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible).
- Expert proficiency in Python, Scala, or Go, and extensive experience with data transformation frameworks (Airflow, dbt).
- Exceptional ability to synthesise complex requirements into simple, elegant, and maintainable architectural designs.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Results-driven mindset with the ability to execute quickly, adapt to change, and thrive in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for our modern Data Platform, Mobius (including Data Warehousing, Data Lake, Streaming, and Governance tooling).
- Design and govern the reference architecture for core data infrastructure, ensuring optimal scalability, reliability, and security.
- Act as a hands-on contributor, tackling the most complex technical challenges and providing code-level guidance for critical components.
- Establish and enforce technical standards for code quality, observability, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) across all data platform teams.
- Act as a technical mentor and coach for Senior and Staff Engineers, raising the technical bar across the organisation.
- Focus on platform engineering principles to improve the developer experience, velocity, and efficiency of all data engineering teams.
- Lead the evaluation, prototyping, and adoption of new data technologies, balancing industry best practices with business needs.
Description
We are Just Eat Takeaway.com, a leading global online delivery platform with a vision to empower everyday convenience. Our teams connect tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery, and convenience partners worldwide. We are seeking a Principal Engineer for our Data Platforms leadership team, who will report directly to the Director of Engineering. This hybrid role allows for 3 days a week in our London or Amsterdam office and 2 days working from home. Our culture is supportive, fast-paced, and focuses on movement and growth, ensuring every aspect of our JETers is celebrated. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity.
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