Growth Intelligence & Trading Senior Manager at Just Eat… · Amsterdam…

Growth Intelligence & Trading Senior Manager

Location: Amsterdam Office

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

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Incubator domain, you will join a dynamic, AI innovation focused team.The Incubator team operates with a high degree of autonomy to identify, develop, and validate new business ideas and technologies from high-risk moonshots to innovative concepts with the potential to drive future growth.

The Incubator functions like an internal startup, rapidly testing early-stage ideas for market viability and business value. Once proven, these initiatives are scaled and transitioned to long-term product teams within JET. Current area of exploration - AI-driven conversational commerce (LLMs and agentic platforms) and other disruptive technologies.

Your role will be pivotal in fostering communication and collaboration. You will work closely with product owners, front-end engineers on web and mobile, as well as other backend engineers. Together, you will design and implement new features, enhance existing ones, boost performance, streamline platforms, and develop robust and scalable backend solutions that serve our extensive customer base.

Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from our Amsterdam or London office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Technology Manager

These are some of the key components to the position:

• You have a deep mastery of at least one high-performance, statically typed language (such as Kotlin or Go) but are pragmatic enough to use Python when the AI ecosystem demands it
• Developing and executing new innovative ideas, staying current with industry trends, and applying a "fail fast" approach.
• Master the craft of writing high-quality, thoroughly tested code within a high performing team.
• Take ownership of projects, mentor peers, and collaborate effectively. Introduce innovative ideas and develop robust, well-considered code.
• Adhere to and help refine the team’s standards and processes. Contribute to setting these standards to ensure continuous improvement.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong software engineering and architectural experience.
• A deep understanding of event driven architecture & distributed systems.
• Experience of working with big data & near real time data processing problems.
• Experience (or a deep curiosity) in integrating AI models, with an understanding that the 'best' solution often involves balancing cost, speed, and accuracy
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP for example)
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Experience of guiding software engineering decisions via influence, rather than by authority.
• Flexible & proactive with the ability to manage shifting priorities.
• Experience with mobile apps and managing distributed teams is beneficial but not essential

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 is cooking?

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 morsels.

Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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