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.
Join our Stream Processing and Data Ingestion team as a Senior Data Platform Engineer. You'll design and build real-time data ingestion and stream processing capabilities that empower data engineers, ML engineers, and analysts across the company to deliver for our customers. This is a key investment area for JET as we build our next-generation AWS lakehouse alongside our mature GCP estate.
Location: Amsterdam - min 3 days/week from the office.
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Design and build robust, secure real-time data ingestion and Apache Flink stream processing pipelines across GCP and AWS platforms
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Model engineering excellence through high-quality code, QA/testing practices, security standards, and optimal solutions
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Contribute to architecture decisions and technical direction for the data platform, driving innovation and scalability
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Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering team growth and knowledge sharing
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Partner with engineering and data teams to surface blockers, align on scalable approaches, and enable customer value
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Own self-serve ingestion capabilities including throughput optimization, delivery guarantees, and error handling
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Drive platform evolution by evaluating and implementing new technologies that enable business objectives
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Deep expertise in Go and/or Scala for building platform services and data systems, with working knowledge of Python
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Proven experience designing and implementing real-time ingestion and stream processing solutions using Apache Flink or comparable engines
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Strong Kubernetes experience, ideally building operators/controllers and running production workloads
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Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end projects with full ownership, from design through deployment, monitoring, and alerting
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Commitment to writing well-tested, readable, performant code for large-scale data volumes, with dedication to mentoring other engineers
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Excellent communication skills and ability to thrive in architecture discussions, influencing peers and stakeholders toward better decisions
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Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including managed and serverless services
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.
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.
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