Who We Are
We’re in the business of delivering awesome meals into everyone's home or office – fast.
We
achieve this by building and running a superb website, suite of mobile
apps, a complex logistical platform, a fleet of passionate drivers, and a
global operation, all to help bring great food from the world's
best-loved local restaurants to consumers with an unparalleled level of
convenience. We don’t want people to have to suffer with bad takeaway
delivered an age after they order.
We work with hundreds of the
UK's best loved restaurants along with renowned local gems such as to
enable them to open up a valuable new revenue stream. Our customers are
as passionate about great food as we are!
The only thing faster
than our deliveries is the growth rate of our company. We’re increasing
in business scale and organizational size at a blisteringly fast rate,
and keeping it all together and making everything click are at the heart
of what make working at Deliveroo a thrilling experience. If you want
to make a difference, and you’re passionate about food, come on board
and join the ride.
How does it work?
Try
it out if you haven’t before. Go to our website or open up our iOS or
Android app. You’ll be greeted by one of our suite of products put
lovingly put together by the Deliveroo product and engineering teams.
Once you’ve input your location, we’ll provide a curated list of
restaurants that will deliver to you. Select your items, choose any
modifiers (lemon and herb? Oh come on!) and we’ll take over.
Your
order then pings another one of apps that sits on a tablet in the
restaurant with your order, then our dispatch engine, Louie, selects a
Roo (that’s what we call them, the lovely people with the kangaroo boxes
on their bikes) then guides them to the restaurant, and then to your
location, in an average time of 32 minutes with the help of our Rider
app. Those apps, alongside our suite of real time monitoring tools, all
play a critical part in getting that tasty food to you quickly and in
great condition.
So why work for us?
Training and Development:
We’re
all about helping you reach your full potential, and as a business, we
never stop learning. We’ll give you a budget for machinery, conferences,
books, online courses, and whatever else you need to develop and learn
new skills to help keep Deliveroo ahead of the rest.
Diversity:
We’re
a global business, so it’s extremely important to us that our team and
environment offer a great environment for all types of people. We’re not
your average startup bro monoculture.
Working effectively:
We
encourage each product team to get involved in suggesting the most
effective way to get things done. We utilise best practices to make sure
everything we do is a collective effort, and we encourage everyone to
take an interest of all areas of the business; not a designer, but
you’ve thought of a way to more effectively present a map? The design
team are all ears! No code monkeys here, it’s all part of the whole
“reach your full potential” stuff we mentioned earlier. Have a little
scroll up if you’d like reminding.
Making you comfortable:
Output,
not input. It’s not a problem if you need a little leeway in the way
you work, infact if it helps you out, we’re all for it. We’ve got a
cycle to work scheme in place, allow for flexible working hours, and are
happy for you to work from home on occasion.
Having fun!
Come
with us as we take each other on in go-karts. If it’s Monday, chances
are somebody has baked something delicious over the weekend and brought
it in to share with the team. Some of us like to work out in the park at
lunch, some of us prefer to...you know...eat lunch at lunch. We’re a
sociable bunch, and we love to chill out as a team on Friday evenings
after a solid week’s work.
Requirements
- Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software
- Professional
experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails (2+ years) or be a very
experienced polyglot programmer with the willingness to learn Ruby
quickly
- Experience with TDD environments (RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, Selenium)
- Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis)
Nice to haves
- Experience with front-end web technology, bonus points for React
- Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above)
- Experience with PostGIS, or any geography-heavy applications
- Experience with "NoSQL" data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
- Experience with Go or Elixir
- Experience solving logistical problems with software
Benefits
- Fantastic exposure to scaling a tech team at an incredible pace
- Top end machinery
- Subsidised gym membership at a proper fancy gym down the road
- Regular off-sites with the team, as well as game nights, and the legendary “Bun-day Monday”
- Ping-pong table, PS4, dartboard and foosball table as standard office furniture
- Food. So much food. Nom Nom