Senior open to Mid Backend Software Engineer

Senior open to Mid Backend Software Engineer

Hybrid - Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Sep 22, 2026

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online 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

JET is growing its technical estate to make partner KYC (Know Your Customer) & KYB (Know Your Business) faster, smoother and scalable across the globe.

Our products are aimed both for our partners and our internal users, helping them navigate the complexities of each market easily.

In this role, you will be responsible for building high scale, distributed systems that can handle complexities across markets.

We're seeking a senior and a mid level software engineer with fresh ideas who drives bold, creative solutions to advance the JET’s global vision.

* Please note that this position is located in Amsterdam (3 days a week from our Amsterdam office and 2 days working from home)

These are some of the key components to the position:

Work on large-scale, highly available, and resilient modern systems — supporting business continuity by maintaining our current systems and modernising partner systems within a small agile team. Design and build systems from scratch, collaborating with multiple engineering and product teams across the globe.

Own services end to end. Decide how best to build, test, deploy and monitor.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members.

Drive knowledge sharing through demos, presentations, and tutorials.

Closely collaborate with other departments, including legal, compliance, and customer services.

Work in new and upcoming projects: Doing proof of concepts, solving real problems with product & business plus owning projects end to end.

Some of the technologies you will be working with: Kotlin, Python, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, CI/CD with Gitlab,Github Actions, Kafka, AWS: SNS, SQS, ReactJS,Vue JS, MySql DB, NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DynamoDB.

What will you bring to the team?

• Hands-on experience working with object oriented languages: Kotlin or Java with sound understanding of 3rd party integrations, API Design, and development & CI/CD pipelines..
• Experience with modern testing practices (unit, integration, regression).
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Infrastructure like AWS / Google Cloud / Azure (knowledge only is ok for mid level)
• Understanding of microservices and event driven architecture.
• Experience with databases either Relational or NoSQL or both.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex matters and requirements to non-domain experts in a clear, simple and concise way.
• Experience in vue.js is a non-mandatory plus,

At JET, this is how we play

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.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to 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 are we delivering?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET journeys.

Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online food delivery marketplace connecting consumers and restaurants across 17 countries, fostering innovation and collaboration in the food tech industry.

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Post IPO Equity - The Baupost Group$549M

Aug 2021

Post IPO Debt$1.3B

Feb 2021

Post IPO Equity$772.9M

Jan 2019

Series B$101.3M

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Headquarters Amsterdam, North Holland