Data Platform Engineer
1 day ago
Bracknell
Data Platform Engineer \n 3 Days On-Site - London Ready for a Challenge?\n Join us at Just Eat Takeaway.com, a leading global online delivery platform dedicated to empowering 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 worldwide. About This Role\n We’re on the lookout for a Platform Engineer to join our Batch Data Tools (Data Platform) team within the Global Intelligence Platforms organization. In this pivotal role, you will help build and evolve Mobius—our internal unified analytics and data platform that powers data workloads at scale across Just Eat Takeaway. \n Mobius is a Kubernetes-native, declarative data platform designed to simplify infrastructure complexity, enabling data engineers to provision and manage batch and streaming pipelines through a user-friendly API. As part of the Batch Data Tools team, you will own the components that make this vision a reality. \n We’re looking for someone who embodies our values of lead, deliver, and care, bringing fresh ideas and bold, creative solutions to drive Just Eat Takeaway forward. Your Key Responsibilities\n\n • Design, build, and continuously improve batch and data processing capabilities on the Mobius platform, ensuring high standards of reliability and maintainability.\n, • Contribute to the evolution of Mobius, shaping architecture decisions that scale with our growing data needs.\n, • Collaborate with internal teams to understand their data requirements and translate them into production-ready solutions.\n, • Establish observability for data workloads—monitoring, alerting, and logging—and lead incident response when challenges arise.\n, • Engage in code reviews, raising engineering standards and sharing knowledge generously across the team.\n, • Work closely with the Global Intelligence Platforms organization and external teams to ensure Mobius delivers measurable value.\n, • Identify and drive improvements to tooling, processes, and developer experience, making it easier for teams to build on Mobius confidently.\n, • Contribute to team planning and prioritization, breaking down complex problems into clear, achievable goals.\nWhat You Bring to the Team\n\n, • Strong coding skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with a proven track record of building reliable, production-grade software at scale.\n, • Hands-on experience with data transformation tools like Spark and DBT, focusing on well-tested, maintainable data products.\n, • Confidence in working with Kubernetes-native platforms to deploy and operate data workloads across cloud environments; knowledge of Golang is a plus.\n, • Familiarity with Apache Iceberg and schema management via catalogs like AWS Glue, with an appreciation for data quality.\n, • Solid grounding in core AWS data and messaging services (S3, Glue ETL, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Redis) and their roles in modern data architectures.\n, • Proficiency in SQL and experience querying large-scale datasets with engines like Athena to derive insights.\n, • Experience orchestrating and scheduling data workflows, with an understanding of pipeline dependency management principles (e.g., Airflow).\n, • Comfort in establishing monitoring, logging, and alerting for applications to drive operational excellence.\n, • A collaborative, growth-oriented mindset: you build strong relationships, stay committed to shared goals, and actively seek ways to elevate standards.\nAt JET, This Is How We Play\n Our teams forge connections internally and collaborate with some of the best-known brands globally, giving us a 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. \n At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviors, guiding every interaction, decision, and innovation. By consistently performing these actions brilliantly, we surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty time and again. \n Fun, fast-paced, and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another succeed, and celebrating wins. By truly living our values, we’re building a customer-first culture that keeps us one step ahead. Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging\n No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you come from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages diversity of people and thinking, where all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colorful selves to work every day. What Else Are We Delivering?\n Want to know more about our JETers, culture, or company? Explore our stories, blogs, podcasts, and more JET journeys. Are You Ready to Join the Team? Apply Now!\n #LI-CA1