Senior Data Engineer

Position: Senior Data Engineer

Department: AI Growth

Reporting to: Data Science Manager

Location: London or Amsterdam

Hybrid role: 3 days a week from our office & 2 days working from home

Full time / Part time role: Full time

Then Just Eat 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

The AI Growth team builds the systems making JET's marketplace relevant for millions of customers. We develop JET's foundation model platform, serving embedding models and targeting systems for personalized offers.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will own our core data foundations. You will deliver reliable, scalable pipelines from schema design to SLA monitoring, making a lasting impact on our ecosystem.

By partnering with data scientists and ML engineers, you will care for our customer-centric data needs and lead the transition to streaming-capable architectures through collaborative teamwork.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Own the Data foundations: Design and maintain feature pipelines and datasets feeding JET's foundation model platform while ensuring freshness SLAs.
• Drive Platform Excellence: Keep pipelines reliable by leading incident responses, tracking cloud spend, and implementing observability to prevent silent failures.
• Collaborative Mentorship: Mentor engineers through code reviews and design discussions, helping one another succeed and raising the engineering bar.
• Aim High on Architectures: Introduce streaming-aware and incremental patterns, balancing engineering complexity with cost, latency, and performance.

• SQL and dbt Mastery: Track record of designing modular, multi-layer dbt projects and writing clean, maintainable SQL.
• Pipeline Design & Orchestration: Ability to design scalable pipelines from first principles using workflow orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Python Proficiency: Experience writing clean, testable Python for pipeline logic, custom operators, and tooling.
• Feature Engineering for ML: Strong understanding of point-in-time correctness, train/serve symmetry, and data freshness bounds.
• Cloud Infrastructure & Optimization: Experience managing query performance and cloud costs in BigQuery or comparable environments.
• Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience defining cloud infrastructure programmatically using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Reliability Engineering: Commitment to treating missed data SLAs as business impacts, adding preventative tests, and writing post-mortems.
• Partner Collaboration: Ability to translate requirements into data contracts and communicate schema changes to internal partners.
• Advanced Data Capabilities (Bonus): Familiarity with streaming frameworks, LLM fine-tuning pipelines, or managed ML training platforms.

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 & Belongings

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 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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